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

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in South Africa. Nquthu is an isiZulu name meaning "the back of the head". Isandlwana, the site of the historic Anglo-Zulu war battle which took place on 22 January 1879, is a well known tourist destination worldwide.KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - Nquthu Municipality
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Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-seven 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 ...

. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen

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, while the remaining sixteen 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 Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a majority of nineteen seats. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

References

External links

* http://www.nquthu.gov.za/ {{coord, 28, 12, 38, S, 30, 40, 36, E, type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Local municipalities of the Umzinyathi District Municipality