uMdoni Municipality () is a local municipality within the Ugu District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. is the isiZulu name for the indigenous forest waterberry (Syzygium gerrardi) tree. South African Languages - Place names
Main places The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa Place Code Area (km2) Population Bazley Beach 50201 1.65 268 KwaCele 50202 0.70 2,543 Dududu 50205 7.78 5,642 Elysium 50203 1.63 189 Emalangeni 50204 2.54 7,009 Ifafa Beach 50206 0.58 133 Ifafa Marina 50207 0.53 187 Kelso 50208 1.20 425 Mtwalume 50209 2.89 610 Park Rynie 50210 7.81 3,732 Pennington 50211 9.40 2,332 Scottburgh (CBD) 50212 1.58 2,131 Sezela 50213 5.53 1,203 Umzinto 50215 12.39 16,205 Remainder of the municipality 50214 118.87 4,138
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting 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 African National Congress (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 by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since November 2021.
Date Ward Party of the previous councillor Party of the newly elected councillor 27 July 2022 52102013
After the by-election, the council was reconfigured as below:
References
External links http://www.umdoni.gov.za/