UMlalazi Local Municipality
uMlalazi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the King Cetshwayo District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The municipality is named after the uMlalazi River.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Place | Code | Area | Population |
Amatikulu | 1.38 | 732 | |
Bangindoda | 126.37 | 7,112 | |
Bhekabelungu Biyela | 7.32 | 923 | |
Bhekeshowe | 79.53 | 11,789 | |
Dinuzulu | 1.44 | 6,374 | |
Emangidini | 6.86 | 648 | |
Entembeni | 7.15 | 477 | |
Eshowe | 16.33 | 5,230 | |
Gingindlovu | 2.29 | 1,157 | |
Khoza | 69.39 | 11,387 | |
Kolweni | 19.38 | 3,583 | |
KwaMondi | 20.46 | 6,651 | |
Mombeni | 138.88 | 10,829 | |
Mpungose | 173.38 | 26,955 | |
Mpushini Park | 2.72 | 327 | |
Mtunzini | 10.59 | 1,273 | |
Mvuzane | 91.28 | 9,935 | |
Mxhwanazi | 2.72 | 760 | |
Mzimela | 241.85 | 29,731 | |
Ndlangubo | 48.67 | 9,013 | |
Ntuli | 329.56 | 22,189 | |
Nzuza | 85.39 | 21,363 | |
Sabeka | 5.99 | 212 | |
Shange | 109.20 | 13,476 | |
Sikhonyane | 14.29 | 1,231 | |
Umgoye Forest | 39.02 | 6 | |
Vuma | 7.85 | 0 | |
Zulu | 14.62 | 5,710 | |
Remainder of the municipality | 540.21 | 12,007 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of fifty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-seven wards, while the remaining twenty-seven 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 majority of thirty seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 29 November 2017, a ward previously held by an ANC councillor was won by the IFP candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: