Seat Piet Retief Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 4,882 km² Black african population 94.7% Native english speakers 2.4% | Wards 19 Municipal code MP303 White population 3.7% Native afrikaans speakers 3.5% Native zulu speakers 89.1% | |
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Mkhondo Local Municipality, is a South African local municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Piet Retief is the seat of the municipality.
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Map of Piet Retief, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 twenty-nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.