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Thembisile Hani Local Municipality

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Country
  
South Africa

Seat
  
eMpumalanga

Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+2)

Area
  
2,384 kmĀ²

Black african population
  
99.2%

Native zulu speakers
  
12.5%

Province
  
Mpumalanga

Wards
  
32

Municipal code
  
MP315

White population
  
0.1%

Native sotho speakers
  
4.8%

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District
  
Nkangala District Municipality

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.

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Map of KwaMhlanga, South Africa

The municipality is named after Thembisile Chris Hani, Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, who was assassinated on 10 April 1993.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty-nine seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.

References

Thembisile Hani Local Municipality Wikipedia