Ermelo is the educational, industrial and commercial centre of the 7,750 km²
Gert Sibande District Municipality in
Mpumalanga province,
Republic of South Africa. Mixed farming (
maize,
cattle,
potatoes,
beans,
wool,
pigs,
sunflower seeds,
lucerne and
sorghum) and
anthracite,
coal and
torbanite mining take place here. Ermelo is the crossroads of three
national highways,
N2,
N11 and the
N17, only
Pretoria and
Johannesburg are crossed by more.