Ndwedwe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the iLembe District of

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. Primary

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deposits occur in Ndwedwe. Good quality material is found near Coqweni, Nozandla and Appelsbosch. Towns in the municipality include

Ndwedwe Ndwedwe is a town in Ilembe District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The village is 60 km north of Durban and about 20 km west-north-west of oThongathi. Of Zulu origin, the name is said to mean "long, bare ...

, Glendale Heights.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by

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. Nineteen councillors are elected by

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in nineteen wards, while the remaining eighteen 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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(ANC) won a reduced majority of nineteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
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