uMdoni Municipality () is a local municipality within the Ugu District Municipality, in the

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province of

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. is the isiZulu name for the indigenous forest waterberry (''Syzygium gerrardii'') plant.

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-seven 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 ...

. Nineteen councillors are elected by

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in nineteen wards, while the remaining eighteen 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 seventeen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

By-elections from November 2021

The following

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were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since November 2021. After the by-election, the council was reconfigured as below:

References

External links

* http://www.umdoni.gov.za/ {{coord, 30, 17, S, 30, 45, E, region:ZA-ZN_type:adm2nd_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title KwaZulu-Natal South Coast Local municipalities of the Ugu District Municipality