Endumeni Local Municipality
Endumeni Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Umzinyathi District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Endumeni is an isiZulu name meaning "a place of thunderstorm". The municipality shares its name with the Endumeni hill.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population |
| Dundee | 46.60 | 12,268 | |
| eSbongile | 0.06 | 370 | |
| eSibongile | 1.33 | 8,074 | |
| Glencoe | 25.23 | 6,116 | |
| Sbongile | 1.20 | 7,328 | |
| Sithembile | 1.42 | 7,953 | |
| Wasbank | 6.29 | 1,123 | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 1,530.06 | 7,859 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining six 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 majority. The Inkatha Freedom Party formed a government with the support of the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters.In a by-election held in March 2019 the ANC won a ward previously held by the IFP, giving the party an outright majority. This majority was expanded further when ANC won another ward from the DA in June the same year. The council was reconstituted as seen below: