EDumbe Local Municipality

eDumbe
Local municipality
Seal
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	Zululand
Seat	Paulpietersburg
Wards	8
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Sbusiso Mkhabela
Area
• Total	1,943 km2 (750 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [2]
• Total	82,053
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
•  Black African	97.8%
•  Coloured	0.1%
•  Indian/Asian	0.2%
•  White	1.8%
First languages (2011) [2]
•  Zulu	93.5%
•  English	1.3%
•  Southern Ndebele	1.2%
•  Afrikaans	1.1%
• Other	2.9%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN261

eDumbe Municipality (Zulu : UMasipala wase Dumbe) is a local municipality within the Zululand District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The municipality is named after the Dumbe mountain. ^[3]

Only 23% of the municipality's population live in urban areas, while 77% live in the rural hinterland of the municipality. This factor has severe implications on actual service delivery and the cost thereof Paulpietersburg. Renaming has been gazetted for the year 2026. Most settlements developed organically and are unplanned, it lacks basic services and facilities and provide limited opportunities for economic development. ^[4]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: ^[5]

Place	Code	Area (km2)	Population
Bilanyoni	52701	294.31	41,289
Dumbe	52702	2.67	6,942
Mthethwa	52704	69.25	9,471
Paulpietersburg	52705	2.20	1,462
Pongola Bush Nature Reserve	52706	8.75	197
Remainder of the municipality	52703	1,570.30	22,868

Politics

Main article: eDumbe Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of nineteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Ten councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in ten wards, while the remaining nine 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 1 November 2021, the National Freedom Party won a plurality of seats.

The following table shows the results of the election. ^[6]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	National Freedom Party	7,712	33.61	6	7,693	33.47	0	6
	African National Congress	5,361	23.37	2	5,445	23.69	3	5
	Inkatha Freedom Party	5,233	22.81	2	5,448	23.71	3	5
	Economic Freedom Fighters	1,745	7.61	0	1,671	7.27	1	1
	Abantu Batho Congress	1,413	6.16	0	1,409	6.13	1	1
	Democratic Alliance	794	3.46	0	776	3.38	1	1
	Independent candidates	79	0.34	0				0
	9 other parties	606	2.64	0	540	2.35	0	0
Total		22,943	100.00	10	22,982	100.00	9	19
Valid votes		22,943	98.64		22,982	98.51
Invalid/blank votes		317	1.36		348	1.49
Total votes		23,260	100.00		23,330	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		40,418	57.55		40,418	57.72

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. South African Languages - Place names
4. "KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - èDumbe Municipality". Archived from the original on 2010-09-11. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
5. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
6. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — eDumbe". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-11-05.

External links

• http://www.edumbe.gov.za/

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