Dr JS Moroka
Local municipality
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Location in Mpumalanga
Coordinates: 25°5′S 28°50′E / 25.083°S 28.833°E / -25.083; 28.833
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
District	Nkangala
Seat	Siyabuswa
Wards	31
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Grace Tinny Mthimunye
Area
• Total	1,416 km2 (547 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	249,705
• Density	180/km2 (460/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	99.4%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	0.1%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Southern Ndebele	36.2%
• Northern Sotho	30.7%
• Tswana	17.3%
• Tsonga	5.0%
• Other	10.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	MP316

Dr JS Moroka Municipality (Southern Ndebele: UMasipaladi weDr JS Moroka; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Dr JS Moroka; Tswana: Mmasepala wa Dr JS Moroka) is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat is Siyabuswa.

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[3]

The municipal council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-one wards, while the remaining thirty-one 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 (ANC) won a majority of forty-three seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[4][5]

In a by-election held on 8 January 2019, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate.^[6] Council composition was reconfigured as seen below:

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