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Okhahlamba
Local municipality
Seal
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Coordinates: 28°44′S 29°22′E / 28.733°S 29.367°E / -28.733; 29.367
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uThukela
Seat	Bergville
Wards	14
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Vikizitha Mlotshwa APEMO
Area
• Total	3,971 km (1,533 sq mi)
Population
• Total	132,068
• Density	33/km (86/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	97.1%
• Coloured	0.2%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	2.1%
First languages (2011)
• Zulu	93.2%
• English	2.0%
• Southern Ndebele	1.2%
• Afrikaans	1.0%
• Other	2.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN235

Okhahlamba Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala woKhahlamba) is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Society and culture

Museums, monuments and memorials

Spion Kop

This large battlefield located some 30 km outside Ladysmith contains the mass graves of British soldiers, individual graves as well as a number of memorials, including a Boer memorial, British memorial, South Lancashire memorial and Imperial Light Infantry memorial.

Nature reserves

Spioenkop Nature Reserve

25 kilometres (16 mi) from Ladysmith is one of South Africa’s popular wildlife sanctuaries, Spioenkop Nature Reserve. This 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) reserve is home to animals such as the rhino, giraffe and zebra. The sporting activities that Spioenkop offers include hiking, horse riding, angling, yachting, water-skiing and power boating. Spioenkop is also supplies other parts of Gauteng with water because in Gauteng there is a shortage of water.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a plurality of nine seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
5. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Okhahlamba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-09.

External links

• Official website

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