Msunduzi Local Municipality is a
local municipality in
Umgungundlovu District Municipality
uMgungundlovu is one of the 11 district municipalities ("districts") of KwaZulu-Natal province. The seat of uMgungundlovu is Pietermaritzburg. The majority of its 1 million+ residents speak Zulu (2001 Census). The district code is DC22
Geograph ...
,
KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa
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. It encompasses the city of
Pietermaritzburg, 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
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to Pietermaritzburg) and an
agro-industrial corridor (stretching from Pietermaritzburg to
Estcourt
Estcourt () is a town in the uThukela District of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The main economic activity is farming with large bacon and processed food factories situated around the town. The N3 freeway passes close to the town, link ...
). 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
The Drakensberg (Afrikaans: Drakensberge, Zulu: uKhahlambha, Sotho: Maluti) is the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau. The Great Escarpment reaches its greatest elevation – within t ...
and
Kokstad
Kokstad is a town in the Harry Gwala District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Kokstad is named after the Griqua chief Adam Kok III who settled here in 1863. Kokstad is the capital town of the East Griqualand region, as i ...
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
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is a university with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville. ...
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 This is a list of educational institutions in Pietermaritzburg.
Schools
* Alexandra High SchoolAthlone Primary School* Bisley Park Primary School
*Carter High School (South Africa)
* Clifton Preparatory School
*Cordwalles Preparatory School
*Cowan ...
''.)
Politics
The Msunduzi Local Municipality council consists of eighty-one members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Forty-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 thei ...
in forty-one
wards, while the remaining forty are chosen from
party lists 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
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(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