uMhlathuze Local Municipality

uMhlathuze
uMhlathuze
Local municipality
	Seal
	Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	King Cetshwayo
Seat	Richards Bay
Wards	30
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Xolani Ngwezi[2] (IFP)
Area
• Total	793 km2 (306 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	334,459
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [3]
• Black African	87.7%
• Coloured	0.9%
• Indian/Asian	3.8%
• White	7.3%
First languages (2011) [3]
• Zulu	81.3%
• English	9.7%
• Afrikaans	5.1%
• Southern Ndebele	1.2%
• Other	2.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN282

uMhlathuze Local Municipality is an administrative area in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The municipality is named after the Mhlatuze River.[4]

The municipality was enlarged at the time of the South African municipal election, 2016 when part of the disbanded Ntambanana Local Municipality was merged into it.[5]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[6]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population
Bejani	53801	12.82	4,654
Dube	53802	53.95	52,239
Empangeni	53803	14.00	13,306
Esikhawini	53804	5.90	32,437
Khoza	53805	14.32	24,172
Kwambonambi Forest Reserve	53806	56.58	117
Mkhwanazi	53807	66.29	22,758
Nkwanazi	53808	31.86	25,780
Nseleni	53809	1.30	8,873
Richards Bay Part 1	53810	75.80	30,605
Richards Bay Part 2	53811	0.42	382
Richards Bay Part 3	53812	21.19	13,865
Umlalazi Nature Reserve	53814	27.89	347
Vulindlela	53815	2.44	4,044
Zungu/Madlebe	53816	71.06	48,977
Remainder of the municipality	53813	339.73	6,630

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-three are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

In the 2021 South African municipal elections the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, winning a plurality of twenty-seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[7]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	33,827	40.33	20	32,396	38.67	7	27
	Inkatha Freedom Party	28,714	34.23	10	29,303	34.98	13	23
	Democratic Alliance	9,889	11.79	4	9,854	11.76	4	8
	Economic Freedom Fighters	7,627	9.09	0	7,768	9.27	6	6
	National Freedom Party	771	0.92	0	760	0.91	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	713	0.85	0	729	0.87	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	541	0.64	0	608	0.73	1	1
	African Independent Congress	27	0.03	0	876	1.05	0	0
	Abantu Batho Congress	302	0.36	0	289	0.34	0	0
	African People's Movement	300	0.36	0	286	0.34	0	0
	Justice and Employment Party	240	0.29	0	316	0.38	0	0
	Independent candidates	446	0.53	0				0
	South Africa Vuka Movement	197	0.23	0	166	0.20	0	0
	United Christian Democratic Party	118	0.14	0	79	0.09	0	0
	Black First Land First	74	0.09	0	101	0.12	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	45	0.05	0	123	0.15	0	0
	United Independent Movement	11	0.01	0	91	0.11	0	0
	Congregational Christian Unity	40	0.05	0	29	0.03	0	0
Total		83,882	100.00	34	83,774	100.00	33	67

Valid votes		83,882	98.71		83,774	98.64
Invalid/blank votes		1,092	1.29		1,159	1.36
Total votes		84,974	100.00		84,933	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		192,916	44.05		192,916	44.03

By-elections

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021.

Date	Ward	Party of the previous councillor		Party of the newly elected councillor
14 September 2022[8]	12		African National Congress		Inkatha Freedom Party

The by-election took place after the African National Congress (ANC) representative, facing community pressure, resigned. With the victory, the Inkatha Freedom Party solidified its coalition hold on council.[9]

References

"Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
"City of uMhlathuze elects new mayor". Zululand Observer. 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
"Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
South African Languages - Place names
"Ntambanana municipality to dissolve in September". Zululand Observer. 22 April 2016.
Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
"Election Result Table for LGE2021 — uMhlathuze". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
"Municipal By-elections results - Electoral Commission of South Africa". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
Sussman, Wayne (2022-09-15). "SEPTEMBER BY-ELECTIONS: DA triumphs in Prince Albert nail-biter while IFP bucks trend to shock ANC in KZN". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2022-09-15.

External links

https://www.umhlathuze.gov.za/

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[muni_mayor-1] "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.

[2] "City of uMhlathuze elects new mayor". Zululand Observer. 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2022-01-12.

[muni_population-3] "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[4] South African Languages - Place names

[5] "Ntambanana municipality to dissolve in September". Zululand Observer. 22 April 2016.

[6] Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa

[7] "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — uMhlathuze". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

[8] "Municipal By-elections results - Electoral Commission of South Africa". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2022-09-15.

[9] Sussman, Wayne (2022-09-15). "SEPTEMBER BY-ELECTIONS: DA triumphs in Prince Albert nail-biter while IFP bucks trend to shock ANC in KZN". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2022-09-15.