Thembisile Hani Local Municipality is located in the
Nkangala District Municipality of
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
province,
South Africa. It is a semi-urban local Municipality consisting of 57 villages within which there are 5 (five) established townships.
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
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. Thirty-two are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two
wards
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Division or unit
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* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
, while the remaining thirty-two are chosen from
party list
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s 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.
References
External links
Official homepage
{{Nkangala District Municipality
Local municipalities of the Nkangala District Municipality