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:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Ekangala | 5.61 | 1,509 | Zulu | |
| KwaMhlanga Part 1 | 254.72 | 71,756 | Southern [Ndebele language|Southern Ndebele] | |
| KwaMhlanga Part 2 | 5.91 | 6,085 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Mabusa National Park | 100.64 | 99 | Sotho | |
| Mkobola | 320.15 | 107,560 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Moutse 3 | 1.68 | 1,788 | Sotho language|Northern Sotho] | |
| Sokhulumi | 0.33 | 610 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Thokoza | 2.27 | 4,459 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Tweefontein North | 12.07 | 30000 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Tweefontein South | 13.91 | 24,407 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Tweefontein | 23.26 | 45 | Northern Sotho | |
| Vezubuhle | 5.26 | 10,399 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Vlakfontein | 0.76 | 548 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Wolvenkop | 1.34 | 2,161 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 1,761.83 | 6,704 | Southern 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.