Steve Tshwete Local Municipality
Steve Tshwete Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The seat of Steve Tshwete Local Municipality 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.
The municipality is named after Steve Tshwete, ANC activist imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1983.
Main places
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Hendrina | 6.28 | 2,359 | Afrikaans | |
| Kranspoort | 6.39 | 153 | Afrikaans | |
| KwaZamokuhle | 3.79 | 20,427 | Zulu | |
| Mhluzi | 10.29 | 76,462 | Zulu | |
| Middelburg | 117.40 | 87,348 | Afrikaans | |
| Piet Tlou | 6.57 | 5,039 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Remainder of the municipality Lesedi Naledi Bank Bankfontein Clubville Gholfsig Dennisig Mineralia Rockdale Ext. 24 Aerorand Koornfontein Komati Arnot Blinkpan Nazareth Tokologo Grasspan Uitkyk Beestepan Wonderfontein Eastdene | 3,775.34 | 26,079 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of fifty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-nine are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-nine wards, while the remaining twenty-nine 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 thirty-two seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.