Newcastle Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Amajuba District of KwaZulu-Natal in

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Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-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 ...

. Thirty-four 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 thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-three 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 twenty-two seats. A coalition was formed between the IFP, Team Sugar, DA,

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and the FF+ to keep the

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out. The IFP as the largest party in the coalition took the position of Mayor (Xolani Dube) and Speaker of council (Thengi Zulu), while team sugar took the deputy mayor position (Musa Thwala),

the Chief whip position (Faizel Cassim) and the DA were given MPAC. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

* http://www.newcastle.gov.za/ {{coord, 27, 44, 39, S, 29, 56, 14, E, type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Local municipalities of the Amajuba District Municipality Newcastle Local Municipality