Steve Tshwete Local Municipality
| Steve Tshwete | ||
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| Local municipality | ||
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.svg) Location in Mpumalanga |
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| Coordinates: 25°50′S 29°35′E / 25.833°S 29.583°ECoordinates: 25°50′S 29°35′E / 25.833°S 29.583°E | ||
| Country | South Africa | |
| Province | Mpumalanga | |
| District | Nkangala | |
| Seat | Middelburg | |
| Wards | 29 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Municipal council | |
| • Mayor | Mike Masina | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 3,976 km2 (1,535 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 229,831 | |
| • Density | 58/km2 (150/sq mi) | |
| Racial makeup (2011) | ||
| • Black African | 73.6% | |
| • Coloured | 2.6% | |
| • Indian/Asian | 1.6% | |
| • White | 21.8% | |
| First languages (2011) | ||
| • Zulu | 28.3% | |
| • Afrikaans | 22.6% | |
| • Southern Ndebele | 14.9% | |
| • Northern Sotho | 10.8% | |
| • Other | 23.4% | |
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) | |
| Municipal code | MP313 | |
Steve Tshwete Local Municipality (formerly Middelburg Local Municipality) is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The seat of Steve Tshwete Local Municipality is Middelburg. The local municipality was one of the four to have passed the 2009-10 audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa, who deemed it to have a clean administration.
The municipality is named after Steve Tshwete, ANC activist imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1983.
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
The municipal council consists of fifty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-nine are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-nine wards, while the remaining twenty-nine are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-two seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.
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