UMfolozi Local Municipality


uMfolozi is an administrative area in the King Cetshwayo District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The name "Mbonambi" refers to the Mbonambi Local Tribal Authority, which covers most of the municipal area.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Kwambonambi Forest Reserve62.25222
KwaMbonambi2.351,894
Mapelane Nature Reserve52.7854
Mbonambi86.0422,984
Mhlana515.6564,527
Sokhulu98.1712,632
Remainder of the municipality391.244,623

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining sixteen 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 won a narrow majority of seventeen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.