Msunduzi Local Municipality is a
local municipality in
Umgungundlovu District Municipality,
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
,
South Africa. It encompasses the city of
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg (; Zulu: umGungundlovu) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its Zulu name umGungundlovu ...
, which is the capital of the KwaZulu-Natal province and the main economic hub of Umgungundlovu District Municipality.
Msunduzi Municipality is situated on the
N3 highway at a junction of an industrial corridor (from
Durban to Pietermaritzburg) and an
agro-industrial corridor (stretching from Pietermaritzburg to
Estcourt). On the regional scale, it is located at the cross section of the N3
corridor and the
Greytown Road corridor to the north, a tourist route to
Drakensberg and
Kokstad Road to the south.
[Integrated Development Plan - May 2009.]
Msunduzi Municipality. Retrieved on Oct 7, 2009.
The city of Pietermaritzburg is a provincial and national centre of educational excellence. Pietermaritzburg is a seat of the
University of KwaZulu-Natal and is home to several other institutions of higher learning. In addition, Pietermaritzburg is home to a host of private and government-owned institutions of primary and secondary education.
(See ''
Educational Institutions of Pietermaritzburg''.)
Politics
The Msunduzi Local Municipality council consists of eighty-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 ...
. Forty-one councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in forty-one
wards
Ward may refer to:
Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
, while the remaining forty are chosen from
party list
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...
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
African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, obtaining a plurality of forty seats. The following table shows the results of the election.
Mayors
* Hloni Glenford Zondi, 2000-2006
* Zanele Hlatshwayo, 2006-2010
* Mike Tarr, May 2010-2011
* Chris Ndlela, 2011-2016
* Themba Njilo, 2016–August 2019
*
*Mzimkhulu Thebolla, August 2019-present
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
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References
External links
Official website
{{Authority control
Local municipalities of the Umgungundlovu District Municipality