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 Chris Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993), born Martin Thembisile Hani , was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) ...

, 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 Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...

. Thirty-two are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two

wards Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...

, while the remaining thirty-two are chosen from

party list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

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

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{{Nkangala District Municipality Local municipalities of the Nkangala District Municipality