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Umzimkhulu
Local municipality
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Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	Harry Gwala
Seat	Umzimkhulu
Wards	20
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Mphuthumi Mpabanga
Area
• Total	2,435 km (940 sq mi)
Population
• Total	180,302
• Density	74/km (190/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	99.3%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• White	0.1%
First languages (2011)
• Zulu	47.3%
• Xhosa	46.3%
• English	1.6%
• Other	4.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN435

Umzimkhulu Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Mzimkhulu; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Mzimkhulu) is a local municipality within the Harry Gwala District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Umzimkhulu is an isiXhosa and isiZulu word meaning "big/great house". Prior to the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa in 2005, confirmed by the Thirteenth in 2007, it was part of the Eastern Cape.

About 90.8% of the population reside in rural areas, while the remaining 9.2% are urban-based. The municipality faces severe backlogs with respect to water, sanitation and electricity provision. In addition, road infrastructure remains poor and provides only limited access to the area.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-two wards, while the remaining twenty-one 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) won a majority of thirty-three 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. South African Languages - Place names
5. KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - Umzimkhulu Municipality
6. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
7. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Umzimkhulu". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-16.

External links

• Official website

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• Local municipalities of the Harry Gwala District Municipality