Steve Tshwete Local Municipality
Steve Tshwete | |
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Location in Mpumalanga | |
| Coordinates: 25°50′S 29°35′E / 25.833°S 29.583°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Mpumalanga |
| District | Nkangala |
| Seat | Middelburg |
| Wards | 29 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal council |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,976 km2 (1,535 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 229,831 |
| • Density | 58/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 73.6% |
| • Coloured | 2.6% |
| • Indian/Asian | 1.6% |
| • White | 21.8% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Zulu | 34.4% |
| • Afrikaans | 29.6% |
| • Southern Ndebele | 14.9% |
| • Northern Sotho | 10.8% |
| • Other | 23.4% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Municipal code | MP313 |
Steve Tshwete Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala iSteve Tshwete; Afrikaans: Steve Tshwete Munisipaliteit; Southern Ndebele: UMasipaladi weSteve Tshwete; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Steve Tshwete), formerly Middelburg Municipality, is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat is Middelburg. The local municipality was one of the four to have passed the 2009-10 audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa, who deemed it to have a clean administration.
The municipality is named after Steve Tshwete, an ANC activist imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1983.