Steve Tshwete Local Municipality

Steve Tshwete
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Mpumalanga
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[1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Mike Masina
Area
• Total	3,976 km^2 (1,535 sq mi)
Population (2011)[2]
• Total	229,831
• Density	58/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[2]
• Black African	73.6%
• Coloured	2.6%
• Indian/Asian	1.6%
• White	21.8%
First languages (2011)[3]
• 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.^[4]

The municipality is named after Steve Tshwete, ANC activist imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1983.

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[5]

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	Population	Most spoken language
Hendrina	869013	6.28	2,359	Afrikaans
Kranspoort	869001001	6.39	153	Afrikaans
KwaZamokuhle	869012	3.79	20,427	Zulu
Mhluzi	869004	10.29	76,462	Zulu
Middelburg	869005	117.40	87,348	Afrikaans
Piet Tlou	869003	6.57	5,039	Southern Ndebele
Remainder of the municipality	869002	3,775.34	26,079	Southern Ndebele

Politics

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 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-nine seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.^[6][7]

Party		Votes				Seats
		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	35,980	36,284	72,264	67.8	22	17	39
	Democratic Alliance	15,152	14,962	30,114	28.3	7	10	17
	Congress of the People	935	948	1,883	1.8	0	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	333	403	736	0.7	0	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	412	290	702	0.7	0	0	0
	National Freedom Party	260	298	558	0.5	0	0	0
	Pan Africanist Congress	115	123	238	0.2	0	0	0
	Independent	65	–	65	0.1	0	–	0
Total		53,252	53,308	106,560	100.0	29	29	58
Spoilt votes		727	663	1,390

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Auditor-General urges South Africa’s mayors to lead the drive towards clean administration by 2014
5. Statistics South Africa: Steve Tshwete
6. "Results Summary – All Ballots: Steve Tshwete" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
7. "Seat Calculation Detail: Steve Tshwete" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

External links

• Official homepage