Thembisile Hani Local Municipality


Thembisile Hani Municipality 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

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Ekangala5.611,509Zulu
KwaMhlanga Part 1254.7271,756Southern [Ndebele language|Southern Ndebele]
KwaMhlanga Part 25.916,085Southern Ndebele
Mabusa National Park100.6499Sotho
Mkobola320.15107,560Southern Ndebele
Moutse 31.681,788Sotho language|Northern Sotho]
Sokhulumi0.33610Southern Ndebele
Thokoza2.274,459Southern Ndebele
Tweefontein North12.0730000Southern Ndebele
Tweefontein South13.9124,407Southern Ndebele
Tweefontein23.2645Northern Sotho
Vezubuhle5.2610,399Southern Ndebele
Vlakfontein0.76548Southern Ndebele
Wolvenkop1.342,161Southern Ndebele
Remainder of the municipality1,761.836,704Southern Ndebel

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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress won a majority of forty seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.