Country South Africa Seat Ermelo Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 6,016 km² Black african population 88.1% Native english speakers 3.5% Province Mpumalanga | District Gert Sibande Wards 19 Municipal code MP302 White population 9.8% Native afrikaans speakers 9.8% Native zulu speakers 72.6% | |
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Msukaligwa Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Ermelo is the Seat of the municipality.
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Map of Ermelo, 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.