Mkhondo Local Municipality
Mkhondo Local Municipality, is a South African local municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Piet Retief is the seat of the municipality.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Amsterdam | 4.36 | 1,452 | Zulu | |
| Dirkiesdorp | 3.30 | 523 | Zulu | |
| Driefontein | 53.65 | 15,319 | Zulu | |
| Ethandakukhanya | 8.49 | 24,867 | Zulu | |
| KwaNgema | 12.13 | 1,003 | Zulu | |
| KwaThandeka | 2.91 | 5,085 | Zulu | |
| Ngema | 86.10 | 3,539 | Zulu | |
| Piet Retief | 55.41 | 13,052 | Zulu | |
| Shabalala | 13.71 | 807 | Zulu | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 4,628.84 | 77,246 | Zulu |
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.