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Umvoti
Local municipality
Seal
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uMzinyathi
Seat	Greytown
Wards	14
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Philani Mavundla (ABC)
Area
• Total	2,516 km (971 sq mi)
Population
• Total	103,093
• Density	41/km (110/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	94.6%
• Coloured	0.8%
• Indian/Asian	2.2%
• White	2.2%
First languages (2011)
• Zulu	90.9%
• English	5.0%
• Other	4.1%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN245

Umvoti Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Umvoti) is a local municipality within the Umzinyathi District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

The municipality is named after the Umvoti River, which runs from the west to the east towards the Indian Ocean. The municipality is situated nearer the mouth of the river.

Greytown, a small but vibrant town, is the main provider of higher income jobs in senior management, and professional and technical services, providing 26.8% of all jobs in the Umvoti area. The manufacturing sector makes the second largest contribution to the local economy. There is limited economic activity taking place within the traditional authority areas.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 (ANC) lost its majority, obtaining a plurality of ten seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

By-elections from November 2021

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

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. South African Languages - Place names
5. KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - Umvoti Municipality
6. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
7. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Umvoti". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
8. "Our result from KZN finally came in". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
9. "Municipal By-elections results - Electoral Commission of South Africa". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2022-08-04.

External links

• Official website

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• Local municipalities of the Umzinyathi District Municipality