EDumbe Local Municipality
eDumbe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Zululand District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The municipality is named after the Dumbe mountain.
Only 23% of the municipality’s population live in an urban area while 77% live in the rural hinterland of the municipality. This factor has severe implications on actual service delivery and the cost thereof. Most settlements developed organically and are unplanned, lack basic services and facilities and provide limited opportunities for economic development.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population |
| Bilanyoni | 294.31 | 41,289 | |
| Dumbe | 2.67 | 6,942 | |
| Mthethwa | 69.25 | 9,471 | |
| Paulpietersburg | 2.20 | 1,462 | |
| Pongola Bush Nature Reserve | 8.75 | 197 | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 1,570.30 | 22,868 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eight councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eight wards, while the remaining eight 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 no party obtained a council majority. Siyabonga Kunene of the African National Congress was subsequently elected mayor and Nyanga Ndlangamandla of the Inkatha Freedom Party was elected deputy mayor.The following table shows the results of the election.