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uMuziwabantu

11 wards on the 2021 boundaries. Official results of the 2021 Local Government Elections below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources. The latest national and provincial result here is the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.

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  • uMuziwabantu, Ugu
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 38,9%–52,4%
  • 52,4%–54,6%
  • 54,6%–57,3%
  • 57,3%–58,6%
  • 58,6%–60,4%

Votes cast ÷ registered voters, per ward. Classes split the wards shown into equal groups.

MDB 2021 boundaries · select an area to open it

2024 National and Provincial Elections

29 May 2024 · National ballot · Counted in uMuziwabantu · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
27 706
Turnout
59,1%
Registered
48 395
  1. UMKHONTO WESIZWE41,3%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,3%
  3. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY12,4%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS4,5%
  5. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE2,9%
  6. All others5,6%

National and provincial elections are a different election from local ones; each is shown with its own year. Full 2024 results

Share of valid votes

Proportional representation (PR) ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,0%
  2. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY24,2%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS8,4%
  4. AL JAMA-AH6,8%
  5. ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS4,9%
  6. Others (5)8,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 660,4%
  2. Ward 1058,8%
  3. Ward 958,6%
  4. Ward 757,5%
  5. Ward 157,3%
  6. Ward 456,2%
  7. Ward 254,6%
  8. Ward 853,6%
  9. Ward 1152,4%
  10. Ward 550,6%

All 11 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 11 234 (47,0% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
45 078
Votes cast
24 664
Turnout
54,7%
Spoilt ballots
750
How many votes did each contestant receive?10 contestants · 23 914 valid votes · totals of 58 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11 23447,0%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY5 78924,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2 0168,4%
AL JAMA-AH1 6176,8%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS1 1704,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE7733,2%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS4922,1%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY3701,5%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT3471,5%
PEOPLE'S FREEDOM PARTY1060,4%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (CSV) · retrieved

Details
Source
IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Attribution
Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2021 Local Government Elections.

Totals are the sum of the IEC’s published voting-district results, checked against the IEC’s own totals when the data was loaded. Party names are shown exactly as the IEC publishes them.

Council

uMuziwabantu Local Municipality Council: seats won in the 2021 Local Government Elections, as the IEC calculated them

Seats by party, 2021IEC seat calculation printed 22 November 2021
PartyWardPRSeats
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS9110
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY145
AL JAMA-AH112
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS022
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS011
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE011
Total111021

2021 seat calculation

Seats
21
Quota
2 263
Valid votes counted
47 517

Proportional representation: each party’s total follows its share of the PR and ward votes; its ward winners count first and PR list members fill the rest.

Mayor, speaker and other office-bearers are not on the record yet

uMuziwabantu’s office-bearers and PR councillors are not in the record yet. They appear once an authoritative source for them is captured and approved; none are inferred from party lists.

The ward seats today differ from the 2021 calculation: a ward can change hands at a by-election, and a ward with no listed councillor and no by-election in the record is left out of the count.

“Ward seats today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors and, for the 1 wards that list leaves out after a by-election, the candidate that by-election elected (the list omits by-election winners). Neither source dates when a councillor left office.

Sources: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 2 official files · retrieved

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Source
IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, KwaZulu-Natal (54 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Attribution
Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.
Source
IEC — List of current ward councillors, KwaZulu-Natal (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Attribution
Ward councillors: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), www.elections.org.za.

Public money

Budgets, audited spending and audit opinions as National Treasury publishes them for the municipality; tenders it publishes under its own name

Budgets, spending and audits
Total revenue, audited actual—no audited year published
Irregular expenditure, reportedR 5,5 million2023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

25 closed · 1 cancelled tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

  • UMUZ/12/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    PANEL OF DIGITAL AND NON-DIGITAL OUTDOOR ADVERTISEMENT

    advertised 27 August 2026 · closes 23 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • UMUZ/11/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    PANEL OF TOWN & REGIONAL PLANNING CONSULTANTS

    advertised 27 August 2026 · closes 23 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • UMUZ/09/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    CONSTRUCTION OF ESIKHULU TO NHLANJINI ACCESS ROAD IN WARD 09

    advertised 17 June 2026 · closes 15 July 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • UMUZ/10/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    CONSTRUCTION OF MHLWAZINI ACCESS BRIDGE PHASE 2 IN WARD 02

    advertised 17 June 2026 · closes 15 July 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • UMUZ/06/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    SUPPLY MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 APPS 1FOR 36 MONTHS

    advertised 15 May 2026 · closes 18 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of uMuziwabantu

With each ward’s councillor as the IEC lists today, the party that won it in 2021, and its turnout

11 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1SONENGALIPHI SELBY MAPHUMULOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS57,3%
Ward 2ZILUNGISELE ELASTARS MBOTHOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,6%
Ward 3LINDANI DLAMINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,9%
Ward 4BHEKUYISE BENEDICTA KHAYISAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS56,2%
Ward 5LINDELANI SIBONISO ZUNGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,6%
Ward 6SAMBULO MICHAEL CHALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS60,4%
Ward 7SANELE PERCYVELL CHALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS57,5%
Ward 8ANELE PROSPER PHUNGULAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,6%
Ward 9NKOSIYAPHENDULA MILTON SIGWEBELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS58,6%
Ward 10S'KHONA RUSSEL VETHEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY58,8%
Ward 11KHANYISILE MBOTHOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 12 October 2022AL JAMA-AH52,4%

“Won in 2021”: the IEC’s ward-ballot results of the 2021 Local Government Elections, the latest general local election with verified results (sources on each ward’s page); by-elections since then are on each ward’s page. “Councillor today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors, read 9 October 2026, or, for a ward it leaves out, the latest by-election result.

Municipality record and boundaries: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) · MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export · retrieved

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Source
MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
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Attribution
Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.