Maphumulo Local Municipality
The municipality is predominantly rural, comprising mostly tribal land, which is administered by the Ingonyama Trust on behalf of local communities. Sugar-cane cultivation is the predominant economic activity and land use in the municipality. Subsistence agricultural activities in the form of small cropping areas attached to traditional family units dominate land usage.
The only major town in the municipality is Maphumulo.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
| Place | Code | Area (km) | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amabhedu | 54601 | 27.75 | 6,159 |
| Cele | 54602 | 21.80 | 1,201 |
| Embo | 54603 | 38.96 | 4,704 |
| Hlongwa | 54604 | 33.88 | 7,044 |
| Mabomvini | 54605 | 118.39 | 13,850 |
| Mkhonto | 54606 | 255.76 | 35,208 |
| Mpungose | 54607 | 9.62 | 949 |
| Ngcolosi | 54608 | 177.93 | 19,370 |
| Nodunga | 54609 | 58.95 | 3,959 |
| Qadi | 54610 | 30.28 | 5,710 |
| Qwabe/Waterfall | 54611 | 80.50 | 16,906 |
| Zubane | 54612 | 41.25 | 5,594 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twelve councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twelve wards, while the remaining eleven 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 eleven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
| Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| African National Congress | 12,543 | 46.97 | 6 | 12,288 | 46.74 | 5 | 11 | |
| Inkatha Freedom Party | 11,152 | 41.76 | 6 | 11,183 | 42.54 | 4 | 10 | |
| Economic Freedom Fighters | 861 | 3.22 | 0 | 870 | 3.31 | 1 | 1 | |
| Independent Alliance | 247 | 0.92 | 0 | 454 | 1.73 | 1 | 1 | |
| Democratic Alliance | 332 | 1.24 | 0 | 313 | 1.19 | 0 | 0 | |
| African Independent Congress | 245 | 0.92 | 0 | 249 | 0.95 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent candidates | 455 | 1.70 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Abantu Batho Congress | 219 | 0.82 | 0 | 234 | 0.89 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Freedom Party | 172 | 0.64 | 0 | 194 | 0.74 | 0 | 0 | |
| African People First | 181 | 0.68 | 0 | 167 | 0.64 | 0 | 0 | |
| Justice and Employment Party | 173 | 0.65 | 0 | 154 | 0.59 | 0 | 0 | |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 82 | 0.31 | 0 | 81 | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | |
| African People's Movement | 25 | 0.09 | 0 | 37 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Congress of the People | 10 | 0.04 | 0 | 39 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | |
| African Transformation Movement | 10 | 0.04 | 0 | 28 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 26,707 | 100.00 | 12 | 26,291 | 100.00 | 11 | 23 | |
| Valid votes | 26,707 | 97.67 | 26,291 | 97.60 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 638 | 2.33 | 647 | 2.40 | ||||
| Total votes | 27,345 | 100.00 | 26,938 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 49,978 | 54.71 | 49,978 | 53.90 | ||||
References
- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ South African Languages - Place names
- ^ KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - Maphumulo Municipality
- ^ Provincial Profile 2004, KwaZulu-Natal, Statistics South Africa
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Maphumulo". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
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