Impendle Municipality () is a local municipality within the Umgungundlovu District Municipality, in the

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province of

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. During the 18th century, the

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(" Abatwas") used to hide in the mountain in the area because they were accused of stealing livestock from the farmers who decided to fight the Griquas in order to protect their livestock. The Griquas used war spears, and this conflict was called "an outside war", i.e. or . The municipality is extremely diverse in its topography, climate and soils, and has a rich and complex natural environment. High-density settlements occur around

Impendle Impendle is a town in Umgungundlovu District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Impendle town is 48 km west of Pietermaritzburg and 37 km north-east of Bulwer. It was founded in 1894 and since 1948 has been a ...

, in villages such as Gomane, KwaNovuka, Similobha and Kamensi.KwaZulu-Natal Top Business - Impendle Municipality
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Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of ten members elected by

mixed-member proportional representation Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a type of representation provided by some mixed electoral system, mixed electoral systems which combine local Winner-take-all system, winner-take-all elections with a Compensation (el ...

. Five councillors are elected by

first-past-the-post voting First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...

in five wards, while the remaining five 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

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(ANC) won a majority of six seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120330155717/http://impendle.local.gov.za/ {{Coord, 29, 35, 54, S, 29, 52, 04, E, type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Local municipalities of the Umgungundlovu District Municipality