Okhahlamba Local Municipality

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Local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Okhahlamba

Local municipality

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Location in KwaZulu-Natal

Coordinates: 28°44′S 29°22′E﻿ / ﻿28.733°S 29.367°E﻿ / -28.733; 29.367
Country| South Africa
Province| KwaZulu-Natal
District| uThukela
Seat| Bergville
Wards| 14
Government

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• Type| Municipal council
• Mayor| Vikizitha Mlotshwa APEMO
Area

• Total

| 3,971 km2 (1,533 sq mi)
Population

(2011)[2]

• Total

| 132,068
• Density| 33/km2 (86/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)

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• Black African| 97.1%
• Coloured| 0.2%
• Indian/Asian| 0.4%
• White| 2.1%
First languages (2011)

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• Zulu| 93.2%
• English| 2.0%
• Southern Ndebele| 1.2%
• Afrikaans| 1.0%
• Other| 2.6%
Time zone| UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code| KZN235

Okhahlamba Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala woKhahlamba) is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

## Society and culture

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### Museums, monuments and memorials

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#### Spion Kop

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British memorial at Spion Kop

Main article: Battle of Spion Kop

This large battlefield located some 30 km outside Ladysmith contains the mass graves of British soldiers, individual graves as well as a number of memorials, including a Boer memorial, British memorial, South Lancashire memorial and Imperial Light Infantry memorial.

### Nature reserves

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#### Spioenkop Nature Reserve

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25 kilometres (16 mi) from Ladysmith is one of South Africa’s popular wildlife sanctuaries, Spioenkop Nature Reserve. This 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) reserve is home to animals such as the rhino, giraffe and zebra. The sporting activities that Spioenkop offers include hiking, horse riding, angling, yachting, water-skiing and power boating. Spioenkop is also supplies other parts of Gauteng with water because in Gauteng there is a shortage of water.

## Main places

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

Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population

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Amangwane | 51701 | 737.10 | 67,829
Amazizi | 51702 | 95.71 | 16,010
Bergville Part 1 | 51703 | 80.11 | 27,670
Bergville Part 2 | 51715 | 2.53 | 702
Drakensberg | 51704 | 0.40 | 75
Driefontein, KwaZulu-Natal | 51705 | 1.41 | 231
Estcourt | 51706 | 4.79 | 988
Geluksburg | 51707 | 1.08 | 209
Jagersrust | 51708 | 0.63 | 199
Northern Natal Drakensberg | 51709 | 142.17 | 3
Rugged Glen Nature Reserve | 51711 | 7.66 | 15
Spioenkop Dam Nature Reserve | 51712 | 41.63 | 48
Van Reenen | 51713 | 0.48 | 78
Winterton | 51714 | 1.81 | 2,186
Remainder of the municipality | 51710 | 2,365.82 | 21,277

## Politics

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Main article: Okhahlamba Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a plurality of nine seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.[5]

Party| Ward| List| Total
seats

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Votes| %| Seats| Votes| %| Seats
| Inkatha Freedom Party| 10,049| 30.24| 8| 10,227| 30.74| 1| 9
| African National Congress| 9,634| 28.99| 3| 9,751| 29.31| 5| 8
| African People's Movement| 6,570| 19.77| 3| 6,460| 19.41| 3| 6
| Economic Freedom Fighters| 2,017| 6.07| 0| 2,040| 6.13| 2| 2
| National Freedom Party| 1,732| 5.21| 1| 1,708| 5.13| 1| 2
| Democratic Alliance| 1,049| 3.16| 0| 1,035| 3.11| 1| 1
| National Peoples Ambassadors| 526| 1.58| 0| 515| 1.55| 1| 1
| Freedom Front Plus| 388| 1.17| 0| 318| 0.96| 0| 0
| African Transformation Movement| 291| 0.88| 0| 254| 0.76| 0| 0
| Abantu Batho Congress| 269| 0.81| 0| 223| 0.67| 0| 0
| National People's Front| 202| 0.61| 0| 116| 0.35| 0| 0
| Congress of the People| 135| 0.41| 0| 125| 0.38| 0| 0
| African People's Convention| 56| 0.17| 0| 157| 0.47| 0| 0
| National Democratic Convention| 81| 0.24| 0| 99| 0.30| 0| 0
| People's Revolutionary Movement| 75| 0.23| 0| 100| 0.30| 0| 0
| United Democratic Movement| 50| 0.15| 0| 58| 0.17| 0| 0
| African Mantungwa Community| 60| 0.18| 0| 45| 0.14| 0| 0
| United Cultural Movement| 46| 0.14| 0| 43| 0.13| 0| 0
Total| 33,230| 100.00| 15| 33,274| 100.00| 14| 29
Valid votes| 33,230| 97.86| | 33,274| 98.18| |
Invalid/blank votes| 725| 2.14| | 616| 1.82| |
Total votes| 33,955| 100.00| | 33,890| 100.00| |
Registered voters/turnout| 61,114| 55.56| | 61,114| 55.45| |

## References

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1. ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. ^ a b "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[permanent dead link]
5. ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Okhahlamba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-09.

## External links

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* Official website

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Municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal

Metropolitan|

* eThekwini (Durban)

District
and local|

| Ugu|

* Ray Nkonyeni
* uMdoni
* uMuziwabantu
* Umzumbe
* Vulamehlo (dissolved in 2016)

|

Umgungundlovu|

* Impendle
* Mkhambathini
* Mpofana
* Msunduzi
* Richmond
* uMngeni
* uMshwathi

Uthukela|

* Alfred Duma
* Inkosi Langalibalele
* Okhahlamba

Umzinyathi|

* Endumeni
* Msinga
* Nquthu
* Umvoti

Amajuba|

* Dannhauser
* eMadlangeni
* Newcastle

Zululand|

* Abaqulusi
* eDumbe
* Nongoma
* Ulundi
* uPhongolo

Umkhanyakude|

* Big Five Hlabisa
* Jozini
* Mtubatuba
* uMhlabuyalingana

King Cetshwayo|

* uMfolozi
* Mthonjaneni
* Nkandla
* Ntambanana
* uMhlathuze
* uMlalazi

iLembe|

* KwaDukuza
* Mandeni
* Maphumulo
* Ndwedwe

Harry Gwala|

* Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
* Greater Kokstad
* Johannes Phumani Phungula
* Umzimkhulu

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