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Maphumulo Local Municipality

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Country
  
South Africa

Seat
  
Maphumulo

Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+2)

Area
  
896 km²

Black african population
  
99.7%

Native zulu speakers
  
95.4%

District
  
iLembe

Wards
  
11

Municipal code
  
KZN294

White population
  
0.1%

Native english speakers
  
1.2%

Province
  
KwaZulu-Natal

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Maphumulo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the iLembe District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Maphumulo is an isiZulu name meaning "place of rest".

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Map of Maphumulo, South Africa

The municipality is predominantly rural, comprising mostly tribal land, which is administered by the Ingonyama Trust on behalf of local communities. Sugar-cane cultivation is the predominant economic activity and land use in the municipality. Subsistence agricultural activities in the form of small cropping areas attached to traditional family units dominate land usage.

The only major town in the municipality is Maphumulo.

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Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eleven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eleven wards, while the remaining eleven 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 African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

Maphumulo Local Municipality Wikipedia