Thaba Chweu Local Municipality
Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, is a municipality of South Africa, located in the Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga.
Administration Unit
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Graskop | 1.57 | 2,326 | Afrikaans | |
| Lydenburg | 26.12 | 6,858 | Afrikaans | |
| Mashishing | 4.19 | 16,185 | Northern Sotho | |
| Pilgrim's Rest | 15.28 | 16,251 | Northern Sotho | |
| Sabie | 78.81 | 5,674 | Afrikaans | |
| Simile | 0.94 | 6,265 | Swazi | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 5,553.77 | 27,679 | Northern Sotho |
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of seventeen seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.