Thaba Chweu Local Municipality


Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, is a municipality of South Africa, located in the Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga.
Administration Unit

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Graskop1.572,326Afrikaans
Lydenburg26.126,858Afrikaans
Mashishing4.1916,185Northern Sotho
Pilgrim's Rest15.2816,251Northern Sotho
Sabie78.815,674Afrikaans
Simile0.946,265Swazi
Remainder of the municipality5,553.7727,679Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 seventeen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.