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uMhlathuze
Local municipality
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Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	King Cetshwayo
Seat	Richards Bay
Wards	30
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Xolani Ngwezi (IFP)
• Deputy Mayor	Christo Botha (DA)
Area
• Total	793 km (306 sq mi)
Population
• Total	412,075
• Density	520/km (1,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2022)
• Black African	87.7%
• Coloured	0.9%
• Indian/Asian	3.7%
• White	7.5%
First languages (2022)
• Zulu	61.3%
• English	19.7%
• Afrikaans	15.1%
• Southern Ndebele	1.2%
• Other	2.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN282

uMhlathuze Local Municipality is an administrative area in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The municipality is named after the Mhlatuze River.

The municipality was enlarged at the time of the South African municipal election, 2016 when part of the disbanded Ntambanana Local Municipality was merged into it.

Main places

The 2024 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-three are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

In the 2021 South African municipal elections the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, winning a plurality of twenty-seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

By-elections

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021.

The by-election took place after the African National Congress (ANC) representative, facing community pressure, resigned. With the victory, the Inkatha Freedom Party solidified its coalition hold on council.

References

1. "City of uMhlathuze elects new mayor". Zululand Observer. 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
2. "All rise for the new uMhlathuze deputy mayor". Zululand Observer. 2023-08-14. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
3. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
4. ^ "uMhlathuze (Local Municipality, South Africa)". Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location. 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
5. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
6. South African Languages - Place names
7. "Ntambanana municipality to dissolve in September". Zululand Observer. 22 April 2016.
8. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
9. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — uMhlathuze". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
10. "Municipal By-elections results - Electoral Commission of South Africa". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
11. Sussman, Wayne (2022-09-15). "SEPTEMBER BY-ELECTIONS: DA triumphs in Prince Albert nail-biter while IFP bucks trend to shock ANC in KZN". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2022-09-15.

External links

• https://www.umhlathuze.gov.za/

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