Msukaligwa Local Municipality


Msukaligwa Local Municipality is a South African local municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Ermelo is the seat of the municipality.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Breyten2.754,591Zulu
Camden4.78752Zulu
Davel1.6187Zulu
Ermelo25.4811,596Zulu
Kwachibikhulu0.242,490Zulu
KwaDela0.493,548Zulu
KwaZanele1.907,493Zulu
Lothair6.9793Zulu
Phumula2.5616,295Zulu
Selindile1.055,340Zulu
Sheepmoor1.681,229Zulu
Wesselton8.3423,443Zulu
Remainder of the municipality5,958.5647,832Zulu

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of twenty-nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.