EDumbe Local Municipality

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eDumbe
Local municipality
EDumbe CoA.png
Seal
Map of KwaZulu-Natal with Edumbe highlighted.svg
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
 • Total1,943 km2 (750 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total82,053
 • Density42/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%
 • Other2.9%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeKZN261

eDumbe Municipality (Lua error in Module:Lang at line 1422: attempt to concatenate a nil value.) 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]

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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 gazetteded 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]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)Population
Bilanyoni 52701 294.3141,289
Dumbe 52702 2.676,942
Mthethwa 52704 69.259,471
Paulpietersburg 52705 2.201,462
Pongola Bush Nature Reserve 52706 8.75197
Remainder of the municipality 52703 1,570.3022,868

Politics

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]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
National Freedom Party 7,71233.6167,69333.4706
African National Congress 5,36123.3725,44523.6935
Inkatha Freedom Party 5,23322.8125,44823.7135
Economic Freedom Fighters 1,7457.6101,6717.2711
Abantu Batho Congress 1,4136.1601,4096.1311
Democratic Alliance 7943.4607763.3811
Independent candidates 790.3400
9 other parties6062.6405402.3500
Total22,943100.001022,982100.00919
Valid votes22,94398.6422,98298.51
Invalid/blank votes3171.363481.49
Total votes23,260100.0023,330100.00
Registered voters/turnout40,41857.5540,41857.72

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References

  1. ↑ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "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.

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