Umtshezi Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Uthukela District of

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN) is a Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu people, Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu language, Zulu) and ...

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. uMtshezi is an

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name word for

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or San. The name uMtshezi refers to the

Bushman River The Bushman's River () is an east to north-easterly flowing tributary of the Tugela River, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg Mountain range, with its upper catchment in the Giant's Castle Game Reserve, ...

. After

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on 3 August 2016, it was merged into the larger

Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality Inkosi Langalibalele Municipality () is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It was established after the 2016 South African municipal elections by merging the Imbabazane a ...

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consisted of seventeen 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 ...

. Nine councillors were 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 nine wards, while the remaining eight were chosen from

party list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...

s so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 no party obtained a majority; the

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the 1994 South African general election, fir ...

won eight seats, the

Inkatha Freedom Party The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP; ) is a conservative political party in South Africa, which is a part of the current South African Third Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa, government of national unity together with the African National Congress (ANC). A ...

five, and the

National Freedom Party The National Freedom Party (NFP) is a South African political party. It was launched on 25 January 2011 by Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, former chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), along with other former IFP members. Similar to the IFP, ...

three. The following table shows the results of the election. The ANC and the NFP formed a coalition to govern the majority. Subsequently, the ANC won a

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in a ward previously held by the IFP, giving the ANC a majority of nine seats.

References

External links

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