Steve Tshwete Local Municipality
Steve Tshwete Municipality, 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.
The municipality is named after Steve Tshwete, an 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:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Hendrina | 6.28 | 2,359 | Afrikaans | |
| Kranspoort, MP | 6.39 | 153 | Afrikaans | |
| KwaZamokuhle | 3.79 | 20,427 | Zulu | |
| Mhluzi | 10.29 | 76,462 | Zulu | |
| Middelburg | 117.40 | 87,348 | Afrikaans | |
| Piet Tlou | 6.57 | 5,039 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 3,775.34 | 26,079 |
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 1 November 2021 no party won a majority on the council. The African National Congress was the largest party, winning twenty-one seats.The following table shows the results of the election.