Okhahlamba Local Municipality

This article is about the Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. For the former Ukhahlamba District Municipality in Eastern Cape, see Joe Gqabi District Municipality.

Okhahlamba
Local municipality
Seal
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Coordinates: 28°44′S29°22′E / 28.733°S 29.367°E / -28.733; 29.367
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uThukela
Seat	Bergville
Wards	14
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Vikizitha Mlotshwa APEMO
Area
• Total	3,971 km2 (1,533 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [2]
• Total	132,068
• Density	33/km2 (86/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
•  Black African	97.1%
•  Coloured	0.2%
•  Indian/Asian	0.4%
•  White	2.1%
First languages (2011) [3]
•  Zulu	93.2%
•  English	2.0%
•  Southern Ndebele	1.2%
•  Afrikaans	1.0%
• Other	2.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN235

Okhahlamba Municipality (Zulu : UMasipala woKhahlamba) is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Society and culture

Museums, monuments and memorials

Spion Kop

British memorial at Spion Kop

Main article: Battle of Spion Kop

This large battlefield located some 30 km outside Ladysmith contains the mass graves of British soldiers, individual graves as well as a number of memorials, including a Boer memorial, British memorial, South Lancashire memorial and Imperial Light Infantry memorial.

Nature reserves

Spioenkop Nature Reserve

25 kilometres (16 mi) from Ladysmith is one of South Africa’s popular wildlife sanctuaries, Spioenkop Nature Reserve. This 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) reserve is home to animals such as the rhino, giraffe and zebra. The sporting activities that Spioenkop offers include hiking, horse riding, angling, yachting, water-skiing and power boating. Spioenkop is also supplies other parts of Gauteng with water because in Gauteng there is a shortage of water.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: ^[4]

Place	Code	Area (km2)	Population
Amangwane	51701	737.10	67,829
Amazizi	51702	95.71	16,010
Bergville Part 1	51703	80.11	27,670
Bergville Part 2	51715	2.53	702
Drakensberg	51704	0.40	75
Driefontein, KwaZulu-Natal	51705	1.41	231
Estcourt	51706	4.79	988
Geluksburg	51707	1.08	209
Jagersrust	51708	0.63	199
Northern Natal Drakensberg	51709	142.17	3
Rugged Glen Nature Reserve	51711	7.66	15
Spioenkop Dam Nature Reserve	51712	41.63	48
Van Reenen	51713	0.48	78
Winterton	51714	1.81	2,186
Remainder of the municipality	51710	2,365.82	21,277

Politics

Main article: Okhahlamba Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a plurality of nine seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election. ^[5]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Inkatha Freedom Party	10,049	30.24	8	10,227	30.74	1	9
	African National Congress	9,634	28.99	3	9,751	29.31	5	8
	African People's Movement	6,570	19.77	3	6,460	19.41	3	6
	Economic Freedom Fighters	2,017	6.07	0	2,040	6.13	2	2
	National Freedom Party	1,732	5.21	1	1,708	5.13	1	2
	Democratic Alliance	1,049	3.16	0	1,035	3.11	1	1
	National Peoples Ambassadors	526	1.58	0	515	1.55	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	388	1.17	0	318	0.96	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	291	0.88	0	254	0.76	0	0
	Abantu Batho Congress	269	0.81	0	223	0.67	0	0
	National People's Front	202	0.61	0	116	0.35	0	0
	Congress of the People	135	0.41	0	125	0.38	0	0
	African People's Convention	56	0.17	0	157	0.47	0	0
	National Democratic Convention	81	0.24	0	99	0.30	0	0
	People's Revolutionary Movement	75	0.23	0	100	0.30	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	50	0.15	0	58	0.17	0	0
	African Mantungwa Community	60	0.18	0	45	0.14	0	0
	United Cultural Movement	46	0.14	0	43	0.13	0	0
Total		33,230	100.00	15	33,274	100.00	14	29
Valid votes		33,230	97.86		33,274	98.18
Invalid/blank votes		725	2.14		616	1.82
Total votes		33,955	100.00		33,890	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		61,114	55.56		61,114	55.45

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. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa ^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
5. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Okhahlamba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-09.

External links

• Official website