Thembisile Hani Local Municipality
Thembisile Hani | |
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![]() Location in Mpumalanga | |
Coordinates: 25°30′S 28°55′E / 25.500°S 28.917°E | |
Land | Südafrika |
Province | Mpumalanga |
District | Nkangala |
Seat | eMpumalanga |
Wards | 32 |
Regierung | |
• Type | Municipal council |
• Mayor | Cllr L.J Dikgale (ANC) |
• Municipal Manager | Mr. DJD Mahlangu |
Area | |
• Total | 2,384 km2 (920 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 310,458 |
• Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 99.2% |
• Coloured | 0.2% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
• White | 0.1% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Southern Ndebele | 58.5% |
• Northern Sotho | 12.6% |
• Zulu | 12.5% |
• Sotho | 4.8% |
• Other | 11.6% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Municipal code | MP315 |
Thembisile Hani Municipality (Southern Ndebele: UMasipaladi weThembisile Hani; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Thembisile Hani; Zulu: UMasipala iThembisile Hani) is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It is a semi-urban local municipality consisting of 57 villages within which there are 5 established townships.
The municipality is named after Thembisile Chris Hani, the Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, who was assassinated on 10 April 1993.Flare fm SA is a popular local successful radio station based in KwaMhlanga in the Thembisile Hani Local Municipality
Main places
[edit]The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[3]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
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Ekangala | 81201 | 5.61 | 1,509 | Zulu |
KwaMhlanga Part 1 | 81202 | 254.72 | 71,756 | Southern Ndebele |
KwaMhlanga Part 2 | 81215 | 5.91 | 6,085 | Southern Ndebele |
Mabusa National Park | 81203 | 100.64 | 99 | Sotho |
Mkobola | 81204 | 320.15 | 107,560 | Southern Ndebele |
Moutse 3 | 81205 | 1.68 | 1,788 | Northern Sotho |
Sokhulumi | 81206 | 0.33 | 610 | Southern Ndebele |
Thokoza | 81208 | 2.27 | 4,459 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein North | 81210 | 12.07 | 30000 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein South | 81211 | 13.91 | 24,407 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein | 81209 | 23.26 | 45 | Northern Sotho |
Vezubuhle | 81212 | 5.26 | 10,399 | Southern Ndebele |
Vlakfontein | 81213 | 0.76 | 548 | Southern Ndebele |
Wolvenkop | 81214 | 1.34 | 2,161 | Southern Ndebele |
Remainder of the municipality | 81207 | 1,761.83 | 6,704 | Southern Ndebel |
Politics
[edit]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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.[4]
Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
African National Congress | 36,509 | 60.58 | 30 | 37,469 | 62.68 | 10 | 40 | |
Economic Freedom Fighters | 10,274 | 17.05 | 0 | 11,639 | 19.47 | 12 | 12 | |
Democratic Alliance | 3,355 | 5.57 | 0 | 3,509 | 5.87 | 4 | 4 | |
African Independent People's Organisation | 2,326 | 3.86 | 0 | 2,429 | 4.06 | 3 | 3 | |
Independent candidates | 4,404 | 7.31 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Sindawonye Progressive Party | 873 | 1.45 | 0 | 1,024 | 1.71 | 1 | 1 | |
Ingubo Yeskhethu Party | 641 | 1.06 | 0 | 990 | 1.66 | 1 | 1 | |
African Transformation Movement | 477 | 0.79 | 0 | 409 | 0.68 | 1 | 1 | |
8 other parties | 1,404 | 2.33 | 0 | 2,309 | 3.86 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 60,263 | 100.00 | 32 | 59,778 | 100.00 | 32 | 64 | |
Valid votes | 60,263 | 97.68 | 59,778 | 97.38 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,432 | 2.32 | 1,611 | 2.62 | ||||
Total votes | 61,695 | 100.00 | 61,389 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 151,479 | 40.73 | 151,479 | 40.53 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Thembisile Hani". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-10-20.