Thembisile Hani Local Municipality
Thembisile Hani Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, 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, 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:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Ekangala | 5.61 | 1,509 | Zulu | |
| KwaMhlanga Part 1 | 254.72 | 71,756 | 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 | Northern Sotho | |
| Sokhulumi | 0.33 | 610 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Thokoza | 2.27 | 4,459 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Tweefontein North | 12.07 | 20,722 | 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 Ndebele |
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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of forty-nine seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.