Steve Tshwete Local Municipality

Steve Tshwete
Official seal of Steve Tshwete
Location in Mpumalanga
Location in Mpumalanga
Coordinates: 25°50′S 29°35′E / 25.833°S 29.583°E / -25.833; 29.583
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceMpumalanga
DistrictNkangala
SeatMiddelburg
Wards29
Government
 • TypeMunicipal council
Area
 • Total3,976 km2 (1,535 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[2]
 • Total229,831
 • Density58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African73.6%
 • Coloured2.6%
 • Indian/Asian1.6%
 • White21.8%
First languages (2011)
 • Zulu34.4%
 • Afrikaans29.6%
 • Southern Ndebele14.9%
 • Northern Sotho10.8%
 • Other23.4%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeMP313

Steve Tshwete Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala iSteve Tshwete; Afrikaans: Steve Tshwete Munisipaliteit; Southern Ndebele: UMasipaladi weSteve Tshwete; 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.[3]

The municipality is named after Steve Tshwete, an ANC activist imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1983.

  1. ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ^ Auditor-General urges South Africa’s mayors to lead the drive towards clean administration by 2014 Archived 2012-02-23 at the Wayback Machine

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