Country South Africa Seat Wartburg Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 1,818 km² Black african population 95.1% Native sotho speakers 1.1% | Province KwaZulu-Natal Wards 13 Municipal code KZN221 White population 2.7% Native english speakers 4.9% Native zulu speakers 89.6% | |
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District Umgungundlovu District Municipality | ||
uMshwathi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the UMgungundlovu District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
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Map of Wartburg, South Africa
The municipality is named after the uMshwathi River that runs through the municipal area.
In the 1850s, missionaries and colonists from Germany settled in the region along with their families. The area includes towns of German heritage, such as Wartburg, Harburg, Kirchdorf, New Hanover, Lillienthal, Schroeders and Hermannsburg.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 twenty seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.