Mtubatuba Municipality () is a local municipality within the Umkhanyakude District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is named after one of the longest serving Zulu chief, Nkosi Mtubatuba (1855-1955).
Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa Place Code Area (km2) Population Dukuduku State Forest 53602155.88132 Dukuduku 536013.516,364 Honeydale 536030.62788 Mpukunyoni 536049.6610,647 Msane 536051.405,233 Mtubatuba 536124.672,020 Nyalazi State Forest 53607221.22424 Sokhulu 5360836.916,450 St Lucia Estuary 5361018.85134 St Lucia 536092.82864 Umfolozi 5361136.470 Remainder of the municipality 53606211.472,136
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 twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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 no party obtained a majority. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) received the most seats with nineteen. An IFP-led executive was elected on 3 February 2022.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links Official Website