Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 1,855 km² Black african population 91.9% Native english speakers 6.4% | Wards 31 Municipal code KZN252 White population 3.9% Native afrikaans speakers 3.5% | |
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Newcastle Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Amajuba District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
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Map of Newcastle, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-three 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 forty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
Newcastle Local Municipality Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA