eDumbe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Zululand District of
KwaZulu-Natal in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. The municipality is named after the
Dumbe mountain.
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.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of nineteen members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Ten 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 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
The National Freedom Party (NFP) is a South African political party. It was launched on 25 January 2011 by Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, former chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), along with other former IFP members.
Election results
...
won a plurality of seats.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
* http://www.edumbe.gov.za/
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Local municipalities of the Zululand District Municipality