Mtubatuba Local Municipality

Mtubatuba
Mtubatuba
Local municipality
	Seal
	Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uMkhanyakude
Seat	Mtubatuba
Wards	20
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Velangenkisi Gumede
Area
• Total	1,738 km2 (671 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	175,425
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	98.1%
• Coloured	0.4%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	1.1%
First languages (2011)
• Zulu	93.1%
• English	2.9%
• Southern Ndebele	1.3%
• Other	2.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN275

Mtubatuba is an administrative area in the Umkhanyakude District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Main places[]

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[4]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population
	53602	155.88	132
Dukuduku	53601	3.51	6,364
	53603	0.62	788
	53604	9.66	10,647
	53605	1.40	5,233
Mtubatuba	53612	4.67	2,020
	53607	221.22	424
Sokhulu	53608	36.91	6,450
St Lucia Estuary	53610	18.85	134
St Lucia	53609	2.82	864
	53611	36.47	0
Remainder of the municipality	53606	211.47	2,136

Politics[]

The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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 no party obtained a majority. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) received the most seats with nineteen.

The following table shows the results of the election.^[5]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	Inkatha Freedom Party	23,138	40.72	15	25,053	44.16	4	19
	African National Congress	19,903	35.03	7	20,949	36.92	9	16
	Economic Freedom Fighters	5,148	9.06	0	5,146	9.07	4	4
	Independent candidates	3,202	5.63	1				1
	African Christian Democratic Party	1,192	2.10	0	1,263	2.23	1	1
	Democratic Alliance	1,065	1.87	0	1,119	1.97	1	1
	African Independent Congress	656	1.15	0	588	1.04	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	533	0.94	0	531	0.94	1	1
	National Freedom Party	493	0.87	0	494	0.87	1	1
	United Christian Democratic Party	502	0.88	0	457	0.81	0	0
		281	0.49	0	325	0.57	0	0
	African People's Convention	164	0.29	0	227	0.40	0	0
	Abantu Batho Congress	186	0.33	0	159	0.28	0	0
	Al Jama-ah	99	0.17	0	95	0.17	0	0
		111	0.20	0	81	0.14	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	89	0.16	0	102	0.18	0	0
	Black First Land First	34	0.06	0	50	0.09	0	0
	National People's Front	19	0.03	0	60	0.11	0	0
	Patriotic Alliance	10	0.02	0	37	0.07	0	0
Total		56,825	100.00	23	56,736	100.00	22	45

Valid votes		56,825	98.07		56,736	98.04
Invalid/blank votes		1,118	1.93		1,133	1.96
Total votes		57,943	100.00		57,869	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		101,008	57.36		101,008	57.29

References[]

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Mtubatuba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-28.

External links[]

Official Website

Coordinates: 28°25′S 32°11′E / 28.417°S 32.183°E / -28.417; 32.183

[muni_mayor-1] "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.

[muni_population-2] "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[muni_langs-3] "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[4] Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa

[5] "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Mtubatuba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-28.

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