Thembisile Hani Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It is a semi-urban local Municipality consisting of 57 villages within which there are 5 (five) established townships.
Thembisile Hani | |
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Local municipality | |
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![]() Location in Mpumalanga | |
Coordinates: 25°30′S 28°55′E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Mpumalanga |
District | Nkangala |
Seat | eMpumalanga |
Wards | 32 |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal council |
• Mayor | Ndaweni Mahlangu |
Area | |
• Total | 2,384 km2 (920 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 310,458 |
• Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 99.2% |
• Coloured | 0.2% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
• White | 0.1% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Southern Ndebele | 58.5% |
• Northern Sotho | 12.6% |
• Zulu | 12.5% |
• Sotho | 4.8% |
• Other | 11.6% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Municipal code | MP315 |
The municipality is named after Thembisile Chris Hani, Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, who was assassinated on 10 April 1993.
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[3]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
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Ekangala | 81201 | 5.61 | 1,509 | Zulu |
KwaMhlanga Part 1 | 81202 | 254.72 | 71,756 | Southern Ndebele |
KwaMhlanga Part 2 | 81215 | 5.91 | 6,085 | Southern Ndebele |
Mabusa National Park | 81203 | 100.64 | 99 | Sotho |
Mkobola | 81204 | 320.15 | 107,560 | Southern Ndebele |
Moutse 3 | 81205 | 1.68 | 1,788 | Northern Sotho |
Sokhulumi | 81206 | 0.33 | 610 | Southern Ndebele |
Thokoza | 81208 | 2.27 | 4,459 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein North | 81210 | 12.07 | 20,722 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein South | 81211 | 13.91 | 24,407 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein | 81209 | 23.26 | 45 | Northern Sotho |
Vezubuhle | 81212 | 5.26 | 10,399 | Southern Ndebele |
Vlakfontein | 81213 | 0.76 | 548 | Southern Ndebele |
Wolvenkop | 81214 | 1.34 | 2,161 | Southern Ndebele |
Remainder of the municipality | 81207 | 1,761.83 | 6,704 | Southern Ndebele |
The municipal council consists of sixty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-two 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.[4]
Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
African National Congress | 36,509 | 60.58 | 30 | 37,469 | 62.68 | 10 | 40 | |
Economic Freedom Fighters | 10,274 | 17.05 | 0 | 11,639 | 19.47 | 12 | 12 | |
Democratic Alliance | 3,355 | 5.57 | 0 | 3,509 | 5.87 | 4 | 4 | |
African Independent People's Organisation | 2,326 | 3.86 | 0 | 2,429 | 4.06 | 3 | 3 | |
Independent candidates | 4,404 | 7.31 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Sindawonye Progressive Party | 873 | 1.45 | 0 | 1,024 | 1.71 | 1 | 1 | |
Ingubo Yeskhethu Party | 641 | 1.06 | 0 | 990 | 1.66 | 1 | 1 | |
African Transformation Movement | 477 | 0.79 | 0 | 409 | 0.68 | 1 | 1 | |
8 other parties | 1,404 | 2.33 | 0 | 2,309 | 3.86 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 60,263 | 100.00 | 32 | 59,778 | 100.00 | 32 | 64 | |
Valid votes | 60,263 | 97.68 | 59,778 | 97.38 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,432 | 2.32 | 1,611 | 2.62 | ||||
Total votes | 61,695 | 100.00 | 61,389 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 151,479 | 40.73 | 151,479 | 40.53 |
Municipalities of Mpumalanga | ||||||||
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Municipalities and communities of Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga | ||
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District seat: Middelburg | ||
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Emakhazeni | ||
Thembisile |
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Dr JS Moroka | ||
Victor Khanye |