KwaDukuza Local Municipality
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KwaDukuza Local Municipality is one of four municipalities under iLembe District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. As of 2022 it has a population of 324,912.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population |
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Ballito | 54401 | 5.66 | 4,115 |
Blythedale Beach | 54402 | 0.63 | 466 |
Darnall | 54403 | 18.19 | 7,413 |
Mathonsi | 54405 | 11.49 | 4,813 |
Qwabe (Madundube) | 54406 | 19.54 | 833 |
Salt Rock | 54407 | 3.03 | 2,326 |
Shaka's Rock | 54408 | 0.69 | 593 |
Shakaskraal | 54409 | 2.06 | 4,574 |
Stanger | 54410 | 77.71 | 98,280 |
Tinley Manor Beach | 54411 | 0.67 | 473 |
Zinkwazi Beach | 54412 | 1.36 | 469 |
Remainder of the municipality | 54404 | 490.62 | 34,210 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of fifty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty wards, while the remaining twenty-nine 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 twenty-nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.[5]
Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
African National Congress | 35,754 | 49.57 | 27 | 35,752 | 49.55 | 2 | 29 | |
Democratic Alliance | 11,054 | 15.32 | 3 | 11,288 | 15.64 | 6 | 9 | |
ActionSA | 5,516 | 7.65 | 0 | 5,812 | 8.05 | 5 | 5 | |
Independent Alliance | 5,797 | 8.04 | 0 | 5,084 | 7.05 | 5 | 5 | |
Economic Freedom Fighters | 4,832 | 6.70 | 0 | 4,938 | 6.84 | 4 | 4 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 4,358 | 6.04 | 0 | 4,836 | 6.70 | 4 | 4 | |
African Independent Congress | 1,216 | 1.69 | 0 | 1,343 | 1.86 | 1 | 1 | |
African Transformation Movement | 640 | 0.89 | 0 | 579 | 0.80 | 1 | 1 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 476 | 0.66 | 0 | 534 | 0.74 | 1 | 1 | |
Abantu Batho Congress | 400 | 0.55 | 0 | 405 | 0.56 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent candidates | 792 | 1.10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Al Jama-ah | 322 | 0.45 | 0 | 385 | 0.53 | 0 | 0 | |
Justice and Employment Party | 299 | 0.41 | 0 | 394 | 0.55 | 0 | 0 | |
Freedom Front Plus | 221 | 0.31 | 0 | 215 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | |
African People's Movement | 207 | 0.29 | 0 | 215 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | |
National Freedom Party | 122 | 0.17 | 0 | 175 | 0.24 | 0 | 0 | |
African Freedom Revolution | 74 | 0.10 | 0 | 115 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | |
African People First | 55 | 0.08 | 0 | 84 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 72,135 | 100.00 | 30 | 72,154 | 100.00 | 29 | 59 | |
Valid votes | 72,135 | 97.82 | 72,154 | 97.70 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,606 | 2.18 | 1,698 | 2.30 | ||||
Total votes | 73,741 | 100.00 | 73,852 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 136,781 | 53.91 | 136,781 | 53.99 |
See also
References
- ^ Laldas, Jyothi. "Lindi Nhaca elected mayor of KZN's KwaDukuza". Witness. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ a b "KwaDukuza (Local Municipality, South Africa)". Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — KwaDukuza". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
External links
- Official website
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