eDumbe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Zululand District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The municipality is named after the Dumbe mountain.[3]
eDumbe | |
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Local municipality | |
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![]() Location in KwaZulu-Natal | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | KwaZulu-Natal |
District | Zululand |
Seat | Paulpietersburg |
Wards | 8 |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal council |
• Mayor | M. B. Nxusa |
Area | |
• Total | 1,943 km2 (750 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 82,053 |
• Density | 42/km2 (110/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 97.8% |
• Coloured | 0.1% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.2% |
• White | 1.8% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Zulu | 93.5% |
• English | 1.3% |
• Southern Ndebele | 1.2% |
• Afrikaans | 1.1% |
• Other | 2.9% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Municipal code | KZN261 |
Only 23% of the municipality’s population live in an urban area while 77% live in the rural hinterland of the municipality. This factor has severe implications on actual service delivery and the cost thereof. Most settlements developed organically and are unplanned, lack basic services and facilities and provide limited opportunities for economic development.[4]
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population |
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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 |
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 | |||||
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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 |
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