Nkandla_Local_Municipality

Nkandla Local Municipality

Nkandla Local Municipality

Local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Nkandla Local Municipality is an administrative area in the King Cetshwayo District of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The town of Nkandla (seat of the municipality) is the home town of the former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma.

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Nkandla (Enqabeni Enkulu KwaZulu) is a Zulu name for a hiding place of the Zulus a long time ago during the times of war, e.g. the Bambatha Rebellion and the Ndwandwe war from Entumeni. The warriors used the Nkandla forest as their last resort for protection from their enemies. It was very difficult to fight the warriors who were hiding in the thick and dark forest (iNkandla eMahlathi Amnyama). Most of the Zulu heroes' graves are found at Nkandla, for example, Bambatha's grave is at Nsuze.[3]

Main places

Census 2011

According to the first georeferenced 2011 census there are 142 places.[4]

Census 2001

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]

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Politics

Main article: Nkandla Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 3 August 2016 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a majority of fifteen seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.[6][7]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. [3]
    "South African Languages - Place names". salanguages.com.
  4. [4]
    "Statistics and Map as KML-file of Nkandla with all neighborhoods". Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  5. [5]
    Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa[permanent dead link]
  6. [6]
    "Results Summary – All Ballots: Nkandla" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  7. [7]
    "Seat Calculation Detail: Nkandla" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 10 January 2017.

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