Local municipalityMDB municipality code KZN2762021 boundaries

Big Five Hlabisa

14 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.

Big Five Hlabisa, Umkhanyakude
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

44,1%–49,9%
49,9%–56,8%
56,8%–57,6%
57,6%–61,9%
61,9%–67,5%

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 Big Five Hlabisa · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 34 692
Turnout: 60,0%
Registered: 58 709

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY47,0%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE27,7%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS19,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,3%
All others2,6%

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

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY57,3%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS3,5%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY2,0%
KZN INDEPENDENCE1,2%
Others (6)2,2%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 14 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY received the most PR-ballot votes: 17 968 (57,3% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 56 212
Votes cast: 31 838
Turnout: 56,6%
Spoilt ballots: 455

How many votes did each contestant receive?11 contestants · 31 383 valid votes · totals of 77 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	17 968	57,3%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	10 602	33,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	1 093	3,5%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	630	2,0%
KZN INDEPENDENCE	392	1,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	360	1,1%
INDEPENDENT ALLIANCE	183	0,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	45	0,1%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	42	0,1%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	39	0,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	29	0,1%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (CSV) · retrieved 7 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:38 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: IEC copyright notice (elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice, read 2026-10-07): material may be reproduced in unaltered form only for personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation; commercial use is a breach; all other rights reserved; reuse requests to the IEC Manager Legal Services. No separate terms for results data.
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

Big Five Hlabisa 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
Party	Ward	PR	Seats	Ward seats today
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	13	2	15	13
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	0	9	9	0
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	1	1	0
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	0	1	1	0
Independent ward councillors	1	–	1	1
Total	14	13	27	14

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 27
Quota: 2 348
Valid votes counted: 61 031

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

Big Five Hlabisa’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.

“Ward seats today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors and, for the 0 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 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, KwaZulu-Natal (54 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:19 SAST
Fingerprint: bb0023f5959f28f2e42be2398d7d54d5f07a4785f4c86fea948cb4ef057bbebbSHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Published by the IEC on its official websites; reproduced as published, with attribution (IEC copyright notice: www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice).
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)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:22 SAST
Fingerprint: 2f6e5ad3f19791a4da3373d2ab74574e175755fb24d3becfb94d3468ae2dc1b5SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Published by the IEC on its official websites; reproduced as published, with attribution (IEC copyright notice: www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice).
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 1,0 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

21 closed tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

B5H2025/26-03Closed as published on 11 October 2026
CONSTRUCTION OF KHONTO CAUSEWAY IN WARD 14
advertised 6 October 2025 · closes 10 October 2025 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
B5H2025/26-02Closed as published on 11 October 2026
CONSTRUCTION OF GWEGWEDE GRAVEL ROAD IN WARD 14
advertised 6 October 2025 · closes 10 October 2025 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
B5H2024/25-17Closed as published on 11 October 2026
CONSTRUCTION OF NOMPONDO COMMUNITY HALL IN WARD 8
advertised 15 May 2025 · closes 30 May 2025 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
B5H2024/25-20Closed as published on 11 October 2026
CONSTRUCTION OF KHOBE TO ECEKENI GRAVEL ROAD IN WARD 14
advertised 15 May 2025 · closes 2 June 2025 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
B5H2024/25-19Closed as published on 11 October 2026
CONSTRUCTION OF MAYISA ACCESS ROAD IN WARD 12
advertised 15 May 2025 · closes 2 June 2025 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Big Five Hlabisa

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

14 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	BHEKIZENZO SWEETMAN NDLAZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	53,9%	53,9%
Ward 2	ZENZELE WELCOME NTULIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	50,6%	62,5%
Ward 3	PRINCE SICELO MANTENGUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	47,9%	55,6%
Ward 4	SIBUSISO BLESSING SIMELANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	46,1%	67,5%
Ward 5	FIKEZWENI ZEBLON NKWANYANAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	53,2%	44,1%
Ward 6	JEREMIA PHAKAMANI MSEZANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	44,7%	60,6%
Ward 7	VELENKOSINI WELCOME MKHIZEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	61,0%	61,2%
Ward 8	MVUNYELWA MBANGISENI DLADLAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	58,0%	61,9%
Ward 9	ZWAKELE MBUZELENI NGOBESEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	53,7%	57,1%
Ward 10	GABANGENKOSI MATHEWS MDAKAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	68,5%	56,8%
Ward 11	BONGANI WELCOME SHANGASEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	79,9%	57,6%
Ward 12	CABANGOKUHLE NKUMBULO MAPHISAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	46,4%	47,0%
Ward 13	JABULANI PHATHUMUZI ZUNGUINDEPENDENT	Independents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable	43,2%	57,2%
Ward 14	MTHUNZI CYRIL CELEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	61,0%	49,9%

“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 7 October 2026

Details

Source: MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:58 SAST
Fingerprint: 71b7c5ea0ae57bcc5c729d5072de31ba49a96c11f209781e80247d36ad8e237cSHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: MDB terms for municipal and ward boundary data : released for public use with limited restrictions; not to be sold or appropriated for commercial use; may be used in research, publications and value-added products if the MDB is acknowledged as producer and custodian; changed data must not be passed on as an MDB product; faults to be reported to the MDB (SDI Act 54 of 2003).
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.