Mpofana Local Municipality

Mpofana
Local municipality
Seal
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uMgungundlovu
Seat	Mooi River
Wards	4
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Xolani Magnificent Duma
Area
• Total	1,820 km^2 (700 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	38,103
• Density	21/km^2 (54/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	92.1%
• Coloured	0.6%
• Indian/Asian	1.8%
• White	5.2%
First languages (2011) [3]
• Zulu	87.0%
• English	7.0%
• Southern Ndebele	1.2%
• Other	4.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN223

Mpofana Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Mpofana) is a local municipality within the Umgungundlovu District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	Population
Mooi River	50902	13.42	13,408
Rosetta	50903	1.49	299
Remainder of the municipality	50901	1,642.85	23,104

Politics

Main article: Mpofana Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of ten members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Five councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in five wards, while the remaining five 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 seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[5]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	5,251	64.04	5	5,500	67.39	2	7
	Democratic Alliance	1,078	13.15	0	1,065	13.05	1	1
	Economic Freedom Fighters	664	8.10	0	816	10.00	1	1
	Inkatha Freedom Party	423	5.16	0	477	5.84	1	1
	Independent candidates	487	5.94	0				0
	Abantu Batho Congress	173	2.11	0	177	2.17	0	0
	African Christian Democratic Party	60	0.73	0	65	0.80	0	0
	African Mantungwa Community	49	0.60	0	62	0.76	0	0
	National Freedom Party	14	0.17	0				0
Total		8,199	100.00	5	8,162	100.00	5	10
Valid votes		8,199	98.44		8,162	97.95
Invalid/blank votes		130	1.56		171	2.05
Total votes		8,329	100.00		8,333	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		16,768	49.67		16,768	49.70

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
5. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Mpofana". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-28.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120518060135/http://mpofana.local.gov.za/

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