Msukaligwa

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Msukaligwa
Msukaligwa Local Municipality
Map of Mpumalanga with Msukaligwa highlighted (2016) .svg
Basic data
Country South Africa
province Mpumalanga
District Gert SibandeTemplate: Infobox administrative unit / maintenance / other
Seat Ermelo
surface 6016 km²
Residents 149,377 (October 2011)
density 25 inhabitants per km²
key MP302
ISO 3166-2 ZA-MP
Website msukaligwa.gov.za (English)
politics
mayor Msongelwa Solomon Nkosi
Political party African National Congress

Coordinates: 26 ° 33 ′  S , 29 ° 10 ′  E

Msukaligwa (English: Msukaligwa Local Municipality ) is a municipality in the Gert Sibande district in the South African province of Mpumalanga . The seat of the municipality is Ermelo .

The community is run by the African National Congress ; Mayor is Msongelwa Solomon Nkosi.

places

population

The population increased in five years from 149,377 (2011 census) to 164,608 (2016).

Of the residents in 2011, 88.1% were black, 9.8% white, 1.1% Indian or Asian and 0.6% colored .

71.4% of the first language was IsiZulu , 9.7% Afrikaans , 8.4% Siswati , 3.4% English, 1.4% isiNdebele , 0.8% Setswana and 0.6% each isiXhosa and Sesotho .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Executive mayor at msukaligwa.gov.za (English), accessed on October 15, 2016
  2. www.localgovernment.co.za: Msukaligwa Local Municipality (MP302): Demographic
  3. Stats SA: Community Survey 2016 (accessed September 17, 2017)
  4. http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=993&id=msukaligwa-municipality