Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Local Municipality Explained

Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (Inja yeGame)
Settlement Type:Local municipality
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:South Africa
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:KwaZulu-Natal
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Harry Gwala
Seat:Creighton
Government Type:Municipal council
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Sindisiwe Msomi
Leader Title1:Mayor
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:3602
Population Total:113446
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:SAST
Utc Offset1:+2
Blank Name Sec1:Municipal code
Blank Info Sec1:KZN436

Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala i-Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma) is a local municipality within the Harry Gwala District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It was established after the 2016 municipal elections by merging the Ingwe and Kwa Sani local municipalities.[2]

Politics

See main article: Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Local Municipality elections. 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 2021 South African municipal elections the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of sixteen seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.[3]

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Ingwe, Kwa Sani.
  2. Web site: The Local Government Handbook. 6 August 2016.
  3. Web site: Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. 2021-11-19 . wikitable.frith.dev.