Msinga Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Umzinyathi District of

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. The name means a current in the sea where air movement causes ripples on top of the water surface and ends up influencing the nearby climatic conditions through its breeze. Msinga is largely located in deep gorges of the Tugela and Buffalo Rivers, isolated from the immediate surrounding municipal areas.KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - Msinga Municipality
/ref> The population dynamics result in a growing rural area and a declining urban area in Msinga, contrary to most other areas in the country. This can be attributed to the fact that the urban areas of Msinga are very small and are unable to provide the normal range of goods and services provided in urban areas. Msinga is a poverty stricken area with few economic resources and little economic activity. Social services and private households generate 29% of the income for the area.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-one 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 ...

. Twenty-one 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 their ...

in twenty-one

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, while the remaining twenty 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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(IFP) won a majority of twenty-seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

* http://www.msinga.org/ {{coord, 28, 44, 46, S, 30, 27, 09, E, type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Local municipalities of the Umzinyathi District Municipality