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Emalahleni Ezinambeni
Local municipality
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Location in Mpumalanga
Coordinates: 26°0′S 29°10′E / 26.000°S 29.167°E / -26.000; 29.167
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
District	Nkangala
Seat	eMalahleni
Wards	34
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Connie Kantshalintshali (ANC)
Area
• Total	2,678 km (1,034 sq mi)
Population
• Total	395,466
• Density	150/km (380/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2023)
• Black African	81.3%
• White	15.7%
• Coloured	1.7%
• Indian/Asian	0.9%
First languages (2011)
• IsiZulu	38.6%
• Afrikaans	14.9%
• Sepedi	11.3%
• IsiNdebele	8.9%
• SiSwati	5.8%
• English	5.6%
• Xitsonga	3.5%
• Sesotho	3.2%
• IsiXhosa	3.1%
• Other	4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	MP312

Emalahleni Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Malahleni; Afrikaans: Emlahleni Munisipaliteit; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Emalahleni) is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. eMalahleni is a Nguni word meaning place of coal.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-five seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. ^ "Local Municipality". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. South African Languages - Place names
5. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Emalahleni". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-06-27.

External links

• Emalahleni Government site

v t e Municipalities of Mpumalanga
District and local	Gert Sibande Albert Luthuli Msukaligwa Mkhondo Pixley ka Seme Lekwa Dipaleseng Govan Mbeki Nkangala Victor Khanye Emalahleni Steve Tshwete Emakhazeni Thembisile Hani Dr JS Moroka Ehlanzeni Thaba Chweu Mbombela Umjindi Nkomazi Bushbuckridge
List of municipalities in Mpumalanga

v t e Municipalities and communities of Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga
District seat: Middelburg
Emalahleni	Balmoral Klarinet Kriel KwaGuqa Ogies Vandyksdrif Witbank
Steve Tshwete	Botshabelo Hendrina Mhluzi Middelburg
Emakhazeni	Belfast Dalmanutha Dullstroom Machadodorp Vlakfontein Waterval Boven Waterval Onder
Thembisile	Boekenhouthoek Klipfontein KwaMhlanga Kwaggafontein Loopspruit Mathys Zyn Loop Wolvenkop
Dr JS Moroka	Allemansdrift Greenside Kameelrivier Mapoch Mbibana Pankop Siyabuswa Toitskraal Vaalbank Vrieskraal Wolwekraal
Victor Khanye	Delmas Eloff Rietkol Sundra

• Local municipalities of the Nkangala District Municipality
• Emalahleni Local Municipality, Mpumalanga