Maphumulo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the iLembe District of

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. Maphumulo is an

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name meaning "place of rest". The municipality is predominantly rural, comprising mostly tribal land, which is administered by the Ingonyama Trust on behalf of local communities. Sugar-cane cultivation is the predominant economic activity and land use in the municipality. Subsistence agricultural activities in the form of small cropping areas attached to traditional family units dominate land usage.KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - Maphumulo Municipality
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Maphumulo Maphumulo is a town in Ilembe District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Settlement some 42 km north-west of Stanger and 38 km south-east of Kranskop. Named after the Mapumulo Zulu people who came to live here ...

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-three members elected by

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. Twelve councillors are elected by

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in twelve

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, while the remaining eleven are chosen from

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s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the

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(ANC) lost its majority, obtaining a plurality of eleven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
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