Emalahleni Local Municipality, Mpumalanga
Emalahleni Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. eMalahleni is a Nguni name meaning place of coal.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Boschmans Colliery | 0.63 | 3 | Xhosa | |
| Clewer | 36.52 | 2,657 | Zulu | |
| Coalville | 1.33 | 154 | Afrikaans | |
| Cologne | 0.45 | 120 | Zulu | |
| Coronation | 0.96 | 6 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Greenside Colliery | 10.86 | 1,314 | Afrikaans | |
| Hlalanikahle | 4.38 | 27,092 | Zulu | |
| Ikageng | 0.46 | 311 | Zulu | |
| Kendal | 32.65 | 285 | Zulu | |
| Khutala Colliery | 0.58 | 0 | - | |
| Klarinet | 0.52 | 195 | Northern Sotho | |
| Klipplaat | 0.14 | 249 | Zulu | |
| Klippoortjie | 0.99 | 382 | Zulu | |
| Kriel | 37.87 | 11,695 | Afrikaans | |
| KwaGuqa Part 1 | 1.87 | 8,005 | Northern Sotho | |
| KwaGuqa Part 2 | 8.57 | 67,461 | Zulu | |
| KwaGuqa Part 3 | 0.09 | 189 | Zulu | |
| KwaGuqa Part 4 | 0.21 | 1,997 | Northern Sotho | |
| KwaGuqa Part 5 | 0.05 | 510 | Northern Sotho | |
| Landau Colliery | 4.71 | 1,707 | Zulu | |
| Lehlaka Park | 1.85 | 2,867 | Zulu | |
| Lekama | 0.48 | 283 | Zulu | |
| Madressa | 0.63 | 189 | Zulu | |
| Matla Coal Mine | 1.04 | 1,207 | Xhosa | |
| Naauwpoort | 0.50 | 1,782 | Zulu | |
| New Largo | 26.50 | 797 | Zulu | |
| Ogies | 1.50 | 897 | Afrikaans | |
| Pambili | 0.43 | 108 | Northern Sotho | |
| Paxton | 1.00 | 1,410 | Zulu | |
| Phoenix Colliery | 2.69 | 99 | Afrikaans | |
| Phola | 3.26 | 22,864 | Zulu | |
| Pine Ridge | 1.07 | 898 | English | |
| Reedstream Park | 1.19 | 905 | Zulu | |
| Rethabile | 1.12 | 762 | Xhosa | |
| Rietspruit Opencast Mine | 51.22 | 292 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Saaiwater | 0.12 | 270 | Zulu | |
| Soetvelde | 0.21 | 118 | Zulu | |
| Springbok | 0.90 | 369 | Afrikaans | |
| Tavistock Colliery | 0.66 | 0 | - | |
| Thubelihle | 0.96 | 5,746 | Zulu | |
| Travistock South | 0.47 | 307 | Afrikaans | |
| Travistock | 0.47 | 709 | Zulu | |
| Tweefontein | 0.93 | 650 | Afrikaans | |
| Vandyksdrif | 2.56 | 2,010 | Sotho | |
| Voltargo | 0.43 | 237 | Zulu | |
| Vosman | 2.15 | 13,126 | Zulu | |
| Witbank Consolidated Colliery | 0.13 | 249 | Tsonga | |
| Witbank | 240.39 | 61,093 | Afrikaans | |
| Witcons | 0.63 | 184 | Afrikaans | |
| Wolwekrans | 1.40 | 463 | Afrikaans | |
| Zaaiwater | 0.23 | 21 | Southern Ndebele | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 2,182.06 | 31,209 | Zulu |
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-four 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-one seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.