Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 3,976 km² Black african population 73.6% Native zulu speakers 28.3% | Wards 29 Municipal code MP313 White population 21.8% Native afrikaans speakers 22.6% | |
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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.
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Map of Middelburg, South Africa
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:
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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-two seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.