Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality
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Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality
, of Mpumalanga
. Volksrust
is the seat of the municipality.
The municipality is named after Pixley ka Isaka Seme
, a founder and president of the African National Congress
.
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...
, of Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
. Volksrust
Volksrust
Volksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa on the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border. The town has important beef, dairy, maize, sorghum, wool and sunflower seed industries. It was established near to where the Battle of Majuba, wherein the Transvaal won its independence back...
is the seat of the municipality.
The municipality is named after Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley ka Isaka Seme was a founder and President of the African National Congress.He was born in the Colony of Natal at the Inanda mission station of the American Zulu Mission of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...
, a founder and president of the African National Congress
African National Congress
The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
.
Towns
- AmersfoortAmersfoort, MpumalangaAmersfoort is a small sheep farming town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town was established in 1888 around a Dutch Reformed Church which was built in 1876. Lying at 1,664m above sea level in the upper reached of the Vaal river basin on the banks of the Schulpspruit, the area was first...
, - Charlestown,
- Daggakraal,
- Esizameleni,
- Ezamokuhle,
- PerdekopPerdekopPerdekop, , is a small town situated on top of a 1,889m peak in the Mpumalanga province, in South Africa. The town was established during an equine sickness epidemic when farmers found that when they brought their horses to the top of this hill they were protected from the sickness...
, - Sinqobile,
- Siyazenzela,
- VolksrustVolksrustVolksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa on the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border. The town has important beef, dairy, maize, sorghum, wool and sunflower seed industries. It was established near to where the Battle of Majuba, wherein the Transvaal won its independence back...
, - Vukuzakhe,
- WakkerstroomWakkerstroomWakkerstroom, , is the second oldest town in Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It was established in 1859 and its name is an Afrikaans translation of the Zulu name for the river that flows near the town, uThaka, ...
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