List of municipalities in Mpumalanga
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Mpumalanga province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into three district municipalities which are in turn divided into seventeen local municipalities.
District municipalities
[edit]Name | Code | Seat | Area (km²)[1] |
Population (2016)[2] |
Pop. density (per km²) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ehlanzeni District Municipality | DC32 | Mbombela | 27,896 | 1,754,931 | 62.9 | |
Gert Sibande District Municipality | DC30 | Ermelo | 31,841 | 1,135,409 | 35.7 | |
Nkangala District Municipality | DC31 | Middelburg | 16,758 | 1,445,624 | 86.3 |
Local municipalities
[edit]Name | Code | District | Seat | Area (km²)[1] |
Population (2016)[2] |
Pop. density (per km²) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albert Luthuli Local Municipality | MP301 | Gert Sibande | Carolina | 5,559 | 187,629 | 33.7 | |
Bushbuckridge Local Municipality | MP325 | Ehlanzeni | Bushbuckridge | 10,248 | 546,215 | 53.3 | |
Dipaleseng Local Municipality | MP306 | Gert Sibande | Balfour | 2,645 | 45,232 | 17.1 | |
Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality | MP316 | Nkangala | Siyabuswa | 1,416 | 246,016 | 173.7 | |
Emakhazeni Local Municipality | MP314 | Nkangala | Belfast | 4,736 | 48,149 | 10.2 | |
Emalahleni Local Municipality | MP312 | Nkangala | eMalahleni | 2,678 | 455,228 | 170.0 | |
Govan Mbeki Local Municipality | MP307 | Gert Sibande | Secunda | 2,955 | 340,091 | 115.1 | |
Lekwa Local Municipality | MP305 | Gert Sibande | Standerton | 4,557 | 123,419 | 27.1 | |
Mbombela Local Municipality | MP326 | Ehlanzeni | Mbombela | 7,141 | 695,913 | 97.4 | |
Mkhondo Local Municipality | MP303 | Gert Sibande | Piet Retief | 4,882 | 189,036 | 38.7 | |
Msukaligwa Local Municipality | MP302 | Gert Sibande | Ermelo | 6,016 | 164,608 | 27.4 | |
Nkomazi Local Municipality | MP324 | Ehlanzeni | Malalane | 4,787 | 410,907 | 85.8 | |
Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality | MP304 | Gert Sibande | Volksrust | 5,227 | 85,395 | 16.3 | |
Steve Tshwete Local Municipality | MP313 | Nkangala | Middelburg | 3,976 | 278,749 | 70.1 | |
Thaba Chweu Local Municipality | MP321 | Ehlanzeni | Lydenburg | 5,719 | 101,895 | 17.8 | |
Thembisile Hani Local Municipality | MP315 | Nkangala | eMpumalanga | 2,384 | 333,331 | 139.8 | |
Victor Khanye Local Municipality | MP311 | Nkangala | Delmas | 1,568 | 84,151 | 53.7 |
Former municipalities
[edit]These municipalities have been dissolved since the current system of local government was established in 2000.
Name | Code | Dissolved | Fate |
---|---|---|---|
Bohlabela District Municipality | CBDC4 | 1 March 2006 | Annexed by Ehlanzeni and Mopani District Municipalities |
Umjindi Local Municipality | MP323 | 3 August 2016 | Annexed by Mbombela Local Municipality |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "2016 Boundaries". Municipal Demarcation Board (Shapefile). 2016.
- ^ a b "Community Survey 2016". Statistics South Africa (Data file). 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2017.