Jozini is an administrative area in the Umkhanyakude District of

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. Significant portions of Jozini have been neglected in terms of economic development. There is a great disparity between the level of service and infrastructure provision between settlement nodes, such as the towns of

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and

Jozini Jozini is a settlement in Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Jozini is a small town on the main route to Mozambique, and it is close to the Jozini or Pongolapoort Dam. Lake Jozini, as the dam is cal ...

, and the surrounding rural areas. Most of the rural area is associated with a lack of development, poverty and poor service provision.

Main places

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

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 a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two are chosen from

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s 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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(IFP) won a majority of twenty-four seats. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

References

External links

Jozini Municipality - Jozini Municipality Home Page
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