Ndwedwe Local Municipality


Ndwedwe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the iLembe District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Primary kaolin deposits occur in Ndwedwe. Good quality material is found near Coqweni, Nozandla and Appelsbosch.
Towns in the municipality include Ndwedwe, Glendale Heights.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Amalanga58.576,076
Chili12.132,124
Cibane4.49492
Gcwensa54.9910,982
Hlophe7.941,462
Inkumba/KwaNyuswa158.7025,234
Iqadi48.857,973
Khumalo12.401,660
Luthuli24.974,415
Mangangeni/Vumazonke13.732,068
Mathonsi40.53547
Mlamuli Nyuswa127.6621,740
Ndwedwe193.489,964
Ngcolosi17.152,459
Ngongoma/Mavela43.6811,643
Nhlangwini60.397,785
Nodunga45.273,015
Nyuswa/Nodwengu74.4711,577
Qadi18.753,161
Qwabe 23.062,677
Qwabe N8.903,545
Shangase54.627,795
Wosiyane51.624,114

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining eighteen 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 won a majority of twenty-seven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.