Steve Tshwete

Steve Tshwete ; Steve Tshwete Local Municipality
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Basic data
Country	South Africa
province	Mpumalanga
District	Nkangala
Seat	Middelburg
surface	3976 km²
Residents	229,831 (October 2011)
density	58 inhabitants per km²
key	MP313
ISO 3166-2	ZA-MP
Website	www.stevetshwetelm.gov.za (English)
politics
mayor	Mike Masina
Political party	African National Congress

-26 29.166666666667Coordinates: 26 ° 0 ′ S , 29 ° 10 ′ E

Steve Tshwete (English: Steve Tshwete Local Municipality ; formerly Middelburg ) is a municipality in the Nkangala district in the South African province of Mpumalanga . The seat of the municipality is Middelburg . The community name refers to the anti- apartheid fighter and minister Steve Tshwete (1938–2002), who was a member of the African National Congress (ANC).

The church is run by the ANC; Mayor is Mike Masina.

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The population increased in five years from 229,831 (2011 census) to 278,749 (2016).

Of the population in 2011, 73.6% were black, 21.8% white, 2.6% colored and 1.6% Indian or Asian .

The first language was 27.8% isiZulu , 22.1% Afrikaans , 14.6% isiNdebele , 10.6% Sepedi , 5.8% English, 5.2% Siswati , 3.9% Sesotho , 2.3% isiXhosa , 2% Xitsonga and 1.5% Setswana .