Mandeni Local Municipality (formerly eNdondakusuka Local Municipality) is an administrative area in the iLembe District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Manufacturing, elementary work and plant and machine work are the highest non-farming categories of labour. Mandeni includes substantial areas of commercial agriculture, with the bulk of these areas under sugar-cane. Agriculture is the main employment sector in the area.
Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
Place Code Area (km2) Population eNdondakusuka 54301160.306,126 Hlomendini 5430224.741,339 Macambini 54303161.8934,337 Mandini 5430410.053,944 Mathonsi 5430568.9321,692 Ntunzini 5430628.322,412 Sikhonyane 5430799.5330,125 Sundumbili 543088.7624,299 Tugela Mouth 543100.59210 Tugela 5430912.464,170 Umlalazi Nature Reserve 543114.260
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eighteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eighteen wards, while the remaining seventeen 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 reduced majority of nineteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
Corruption and assassination On 31 January 2025, African National Congress councillor Phendukani Mabhida wrote to the regional executive exposing corruption in the Mandeni municipality. Mandeni was assassinated hours before he was due to appear at a meeting to further address these concerns.
References
External links http://www.mandeni.gov.za/