Country South Africa Seat Witbank Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 2,678 km² Black african population 81.3% Native zulu speakers 39.2% | District Nkangala Wards 34 Municipal code MP312 White population 15.7% Native afrikaans speakers 15.2% Province Mpumalanga | |
Emalahleni Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Emalahleni is a Nguni name meaning place of coal.
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Map of Emalahleni, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-four 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 forty-one seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.