Steve Tshwete | |
Settlement Type: | Local municipality |
Seal Size: | 150x100px |
Map Alt: | Location in Mpumalanga |
Coordinates: | -25.8333°N 64°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Mpumalanga |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Nkangala |
Seat: | Middelburg |
Parts Type: | Wards |
Parts: | 29 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Government Type: | Municipal council |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Area Total Km2: | 3976 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 229831 |
Population As Of: | 2023 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup |
Demographics1 Info1: | 73.6% |
Demographics1 Info2: | 2.6% |
Demographics1 Info3: | 1.6% |
Demographics1 Info4: | 21.8% |
Demographics Type2: | First languages |
Demographics2 Footnotes: | [3] |
Demographics2 Info1: | 34.4% |
Demographics2 Info2: | 29.6% |
Demographics2 Info3: | 14.9% |
Demographics2 Info4: | 10.8% |
Demographics2 Info5: | 23.4% |
Timezone1: | SAST |
Utc Offset1: | +2 |
Blank Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
Blank Info Sec1: | MP313 |
Steve Tshwete Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala iSteve Tshwete; Afrikaans: Steve Tshwete Munisipaliteit; Ndebele, South; South Ndebele: UMasipaladi weSteve Tshwete; Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Steve Tshwete), formerly Middelburg Municipality, is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat 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.[4]
The municipality is named after Steve Tshwete, an ANC activist imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1983.
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
869013 | 6.28 | 2,359 | Afrikaans | ||
Kranspoort, MP | 869001001 | 6.39 | 153 | Afrikaans | |
869012 | 3.79 | 20,427 | Zulu | ||
869004 | 10.29 | 76,462 | Zulu | ||
869005 | 117.40 | 87,348 | Afrikaans | ||
869003 | 6.57 | 5,039 | Southern Ndebele | ||
Remainder of the municipality | 869002 | 3,775.34 | 26,079 |
See main article: Steve Tshwete Local Municipality elections. 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 1 November 2021 no party won a majority on the council. The African National Congress (ANC) was the largest party, winning twenty-one seats.
The following table shows the results of the election.[6]
Middelburg's municipal workers started sporadic strikes in September 2021, and these continued into 2022 which affected several services. Licenses could not be renewed at the license office, property transfers could not be done, refuse was not removed and security guards shot two strikers, while political parties chose not to intervene.[7]