Indaka Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Uthukela District of

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

in South Africa. The municipality is named after the Indaka River that runs through the municipal area. Indaka is a predominantly rural municipality, and has no national roads running through it. Indaka's economy is currently relying on

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...

, government services and private household employment. After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger

Alfred Duma Local Municipality Alfred Duma Local Municipality is a local municipality of South Africa. It was established for the August 2016 local elections by the merging of Emnambithi/Ladysmith and Indaka local municipalities. Politics The municipal council consists ...

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty members elected by

mixed-member proportional representation Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...

. Ten councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in ten

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, while the remaining ten are chosen from

party list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 no party obtained a majority; the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won eight seats while the African National Congress (ANC) and

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 ...

(NFP) won six seats each. The ANC and NFP formed a coalition to govern the municipality. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
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