UMdoni Local Municipality

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Umdoni
Local municipality
Umdoni CoA.png
Seal
Map of KwaZulu-Natal with Umdoni highlighted.svg
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country South Africa
Province KwaZulu-Natal
District Ugu
Seat Scottburgh
Wards 19
Government
[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • MayorSibongile Khathi
Area
 • Total252 km2 (97 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total78,875
 • Density310/km2 (810/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 •  Black African 76.7%
 •  Coloured 1.2%
 •  Indian/Asian 13.3%
 •  White 8.5%
First languages (2011)
[2]
 •  Zulu 67.0%
 •  English 23.0%
 •  Xhosa 4.9%
 •  Afrikaans 2.4%
 • Other2.7%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeKZN212

uMdoni Municipality (Zulu : UMasipala wase Mdoni) is a local municipality within the Ugu District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. uMdoni is the isiZulu name for the indigenous forest waterberry (Syzygium gerrardii) plant. [3]

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Main places

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

PlaceCodeArea (km2)Population
Bazley Beach 50201 1.36193
KwaCele 50202 25.5512,338
Elysium 50203 1.58163
Emalangeni 50204 20.699,962
Ezembeni 50205 24.629,872
Ifafa Beach 50206 0.49234
Ifafa Marina 50207 0.5217
Kelso 50208 5.931,178
Mtwalume 50209 2.84368
Park Rynie 50210 7.782,923
Pennington 50211 2.471,278
Scottburgh 50212 5.383,107
Sezela 50213 7.361,604
Umzinto 50215 12.51,4720
Remainder of the municipality 50214 118.874,138

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining eighteen 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 African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seventeen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. [5]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
African National Congress 15,12244.371514,95543.93217
Democratic Alliance 6,04317.7346,15018.0637
Inkatha Freedom Party 4,60513.5104,94814.5355
Economic Freedom Fighters 3,99911.7303,98911.7255
Allied Movement for Change 1,1533.3801,0253.0111
Abantu Batho Congress 7462.1906882.0211
Al Jama-ah 5391.5805221.5311
Independent candidates 6191.8200
15 other parties1,2553.6801,7675.1900
Total34,081100.001934,044100.001837
Valid votes34,08198.2534,04497.83
Invalid/blank votes6061.757562.17
Total votes34,687100.0034,800100.00
Registered voters/turnout71,83148.2971,83148.45

By-elections from November 2021

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since November 2021.

DateWardParty of the previous councillorParty of the newly elected councillor
27 July 2022 [6] 52102013 Democratic Alliance African National Congress


After the by-election, the council was reconfigured as below:

PartySeats
WardListTotal
African National Congress 16218
Democratic Alliance 336
Inkatha Freedom Party 055
Economic Freedom Fighters 055
Allied Movement for Change011
Abantu Batho Congress 011
Al Jama-ah 011
Total191837

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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. ↑ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  5. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Umdoni". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
  6. ↑ "Municipal By-elections results - Electoral Commission of South Africa". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2022-07-28.

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