Okhahlamba Local Municipality


Okhahlamba Local Municipality is a municipality in the Uthukela District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Society and culture

Museums, monuments and memorials

Spion Kop

This large battlefield located some 30 km outside Ladysmith contains the mass graves of British soldiers, individual graves as well as a number of memorials, including a Boer memorial, British memorial, South Lancashire memorial and Imperial Light Infantry memorial.

Nature reserves

Spioenkop Nature Reserve

from Ladysmith is one of South Africa’s popular wildlife sanctuaries, Spioenkop Nature Reserve. This reserve is home to animals such as the rhino, giraffe and zebra. The sporting activities that Spioenkop offers include hiking, horse riding, angling, yachting, water-skiing and power boating. Spioenkop is also supplies other parts of Gauteng with water because in Gauteng there is a shortage of water.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Amangwane737.1067,829
Amazizi95.7116,010
Bergville Part 180.1127,670
Bergville Part 22.53702
Drakensberg0.4075
Driefontein, KwaZulu-Natal1.41231
Estcourt4.79988
Geluksburg1.08209
Jagersrust0.63199
Northern Natal Drakensberg142.173
Rugged Glen Nature Reserve7.6615
Spioenkop Dam Nature Reserve41.6348
Van Reenen0.4878
Winterton1.812,186
Remainder of the municipality2,365.8221,277

Politics

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