Dannhauser Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Amajuba District of
KwaZulu-Natal in
South Africa
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. The municipality is named after Renier Dannhauser, a German settler who in 1872 purchased four farms in the area from the then owner, the Natal government.
The major economic sectors within Dannhauser are agriculture and mining. Mining is however, undergoing a movement away from large scale operations to smaller operations.
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Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
in thirteen wards, while the remaining twelve 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
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) lost its majority, winning a plurality of nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
* http://www.dannhauser.gov.za/
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Local municipalities of the Amajuba District Municipality
Dannhauser Local Municipality