Jozini is an administrative area in the
Umkhanyakude 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 ...
. Significant portions of Jozini have been neglected in terms of economic development. There is a great disparity between the level of service and infrastructure provision between settlement nodes, such as the towns of
Mkuze
Mkuze, also named Mkhuze or uMkhuze is a small town in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is located approximately 350 km from the city of Durban. It is along the N2 road en route to Johannesburg, Eswatini and Mozambique; between the ...
and
Jozini, and the surrounding rural areas. Most of the rural area is associated with a lack of development, poverty and poor service provision.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three 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 twenty-three
wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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
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 ...
(IFP) won a majority of twenty-four seats.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
References
External links
Jozini Municipality - Jozini Municipality Home Page
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Local municipalities of the Umkhanyakude District Municipality