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Richmond Local Municipality

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Country
  
Seat
  
Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+2)

Area
  
1,256 kmĀ²

Black african population
  
95.2%

Native sotho speakers
  
2.2%

Province
  
Wards
  
7

Municipal code
  
KZN227

White population
  
2.6%

Native english speakers
  
5.2%

Native xhosa speakers
  
2.6%

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Richmond Local Municipality is an administrative area in the UMgungundlovu District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

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Map of Richmond, South Africa

Richmond was named after the Earl of Richmond, father in law of Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape from 1844 to 1847.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of fourteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining seven 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 eleven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

Richmond Local Municipality Wikipedia


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