Emalahleni Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Malahleni; Afrikaans: Emlahleni Munisipaliteit; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Emalahleni) is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

eMalahleni is a Nguni word meaning place of coal.

[4] The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: The municipal council consists of sixty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.

Thirty-four are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-four 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-five seats on the council.