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:Place | Code | Area | Population |
Kwambonambi Forest Reserve | 62.25 | 222 | |
KwaMbonambi | 2.35 | 1,894 | |
Mapelane Nature Reserve | 52.78 | 54 | |
Mbonambi | 86.04 | 22,984 | |
Mhlana | 515.65 | 64,527 | |
Sokhulu | 98.17 | 12,632 | |
Remainder of the municipality | 391.24 | 4,623 |
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.