Mkhondo Municipality () is a local municipality within the Gert Sibande District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Piet Retief is the seat of the municipality.
Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language Amsterdam 803014.361,452Swati Dirkiesdorp 803023.30523Zulu Driefontein 8030353.6515,319Zulu Ethandakukhanya 803048.4924,867Zulu KwaNgema 8030512.131,003Zulu KwaThandeka 803062.915,085Zulu Ngema 8030886.103,539Zulu Piet Retief 8030955.4113,052Zulu Shabalala 8031013.71807Zulu Remainder of the municipality 803074,628.8477,246Zulu
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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of twenty-one seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Political assassinations The municipality was described as "the epicentre of political assassinations" after a number of assassinations. In 2022, Sbonelo Mthembu accused former mayor Vusi Motha of having assassinated African National Congress regional secretary Gert Sibande. Mthembu himself was later assassinated. Motha stated that he had intended to sue Mthembu for defamation.
References
External links Official Website