Okhahlamba Local Municipality

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Okhahlamba
Local municipality
Okhahlamba CoA.png
Seal
Map of KwaZulu-Natal with Okhahlamba highlighted.svg
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
 • MayorVikizitha Mlotshwa APEMO
Area
 • Total3,971 km2 (1,533 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total132,068
 • Density33/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%
 • Other2.6%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeKZN235

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

Contents

Society and culture

Museums, monuments and memorials

Spion Kop

British memorial at Spion Kop Spioenkop-British Memorial-002.jpg
British memorial at 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]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)Population
Amangwane 51701 737.1067,829
Amazizi 51702 95.7116,010
Bergville Part 1 51703 80.1127,670
Bergville Part 2 51715 2.53702
Drakensberg 51704 0.4075
Driefontein, KwaZulu-Natal 51705 1.41231
Estcourt 51706 4.79988
Geluksburg 51707 1.08209
Jagersrust 51708 0.63199
Northern Natal Drakensberg 51709 142.173
Rugged Glen Nature Reserve 51711 7.6615
Spioenkop Dam Nature Reserve 51712 41.6348
Van Reenen 51713 0.4878
Winterton 51714 1.812,186
Remainder of the municipality 51710 2,365.8221,277

Politics

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]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Inkatha Freedom Party 10,04930.24810,22730.7419
African National Congress 9,63428.9939,75129.3158
African People's Movement 6,57019.7736,46019.4136
Economic Freedom Fighters 2,0176.0702,0406.1322
National Freedom Party 1,7325.2111,7085.1312
Democratic Alliance 1,0493.1601,0353.1111
National Peoples Ambassadors 5261.5805151.5511
Freedom Front Plus 3881.1703180.9600
African Transformation Movement 2910.8802540.7600
Abantu Batho Congress 2690.8102230.6700
National People's Front 2020.6101160.3500
Congress of the People 1350.4101250.3800
African People's Convention 560.1701570.4700
National Democratic Convention 810.240990.3000
People's Revolutionary Movement 750.2301000.3000
United Democratic Movement 500.150580.1700
African Mantungwa Community 600.180450.1400
United Cultural Movement 460.140430.1300
Total33,230100.001533,274100.001429
Valid votes33,23097.8633,27498.18
Invalid/blank votes7252.146161.82
Total votes33,955100.0033,890100.00
Registered voters/turnout61,11455.5661,11455.45

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The Okhahlamba Local Municipality 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 election of 1 November 2021 no party won a majority on the council. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) obtained a plurality of nine seats.

References

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  2. 1 2 "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
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  5. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Okhahlamba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
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