Hlabisa was an administrative area in the
Umkhanyakude District of
KwaZulu-Natal in
South Africa
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. Hlabisa is an
isiZulu
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surname of the two
nkosis (kings) in the area. The municipality was situated within the vicinity of four
Tribal Authorities which are the
Mkhwanazi Tribal Authority, the
Mdletshe Tribal Authority, and two
Hlabisa
Hlabisa is a settlement in Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The village lies between the Hluhluwe and Umfolozi game reserves, some 40 km north-west of Mtubatuba. Named after the Hlabisa tribe ...
Tribal Authorities.
The municipality was generally characterised by isolated rural communities with high levels of poverty. The most significant land use was
subsistence agriculture and dispersed settlements, plantations and agriculture are found throughout the municipality. The major draw card of Hlabisa was the tourism industry centred on the
adjacent game reserve.
After
municipal elections
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on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger
Big Five Hlabisa Local Municipality.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consisted of sixteen members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Eight councillors were 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 eight
wards, while the remaining eight were chosen from
party lists so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the
election of 18 May 2011 no party obtained a majority. The following table shows the results of the election.
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
...
lost a ward to the
Inkatha Freedom Party
The Inkatha Freedom Party ( zu, IQembu leNkatha yeNkululeko, IFP) is a right-wing political party in South Africa. The party has been led by Velenkosini Hlabisa since the party's 2019 National General Conference. Mangosuthu Buthelezi founded ...
in a by-election in December 2012. As a result, the IFP gained a majority of 9 seats on the council.
References
External links
Official website
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Former local municipalities of South Africa