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uMhlathuze

34 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.

2024 National and Provincial Elections

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

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 130 810
Turnout: 64,4%
Registered: 205 845

UMKHONTO WESIZWE49,2%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY23,7%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE10,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2,6%
All others2,5%

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

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,7%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY35,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE11,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS9,3%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS1,0%
Others (12)4,3%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 34 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 32 396 (38,7% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 192 916
Votes cast: 84 933
Turnout: 44,0%
Spoilt ballots: 1 159

How many votes did each contestant receive?17 contestants · 83 774 valid votes · totals of 146 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	32 396	38,7%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	29 303	35,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	9 854	11,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	7 768	9,3%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	876	1,0%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	760	0,9%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	729	0,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	608	0,7%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY	316	0,4%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	289	0,3%
Others (7 contestants together)	875	1,0%	Not compared

Show all 17 contestants

All 17 contestants17 contestants · 83 774 valid votes · totals of 146 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	32 396	38,7%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	29 303	35,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	9 854	11,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	7 768	9,3%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	876	1,0%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	760	0,9%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	729	0,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	608	0,7%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY	316	0,4%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	289	0,3%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	286	0,3%
SOUTH AFRICA VUKA MOVEMENT	166	0,2%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	123	0,1%
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST	101	0,1%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT	91	0,1%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	79	0,1%
CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNITY	29	0,0%

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

uMhlathuze 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
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	20	7	27	18
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	10	13	23	12
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	4	4	8	4
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	6	6	0
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	0	1	1	0
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	0	1	1	0
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	0	1	1	0
Total	34	33	67	34

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 67
Quota: 2 496
Valid votes counted: 167 210

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

uMhlathuze’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 2 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
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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
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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 02023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - No findings2023/24 · Auditor-General

192 closed · 4 awarded · 3 published · 1 cancelled tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

8/2/1UMH1792-26/27Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF ROAD MARKING PAINT FOR THE CITY OF UMHLATHUZE AS AND WHEN REQUIRED FOR THE PERIOD OF THIRTY- SIX (36) MONTHS
advertised 21 September 2026 · closes 28 October 2026 · KwaZulu-Natal · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
8/2/1/UMH1760- 26/27Closed as published on 11 October 2026
12 MONTHS MAINTENANCE OF HEWLETT–PACKARD ENTERPRISE (HPE) SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE CITY OF UMHLATHUZE
advertised 10 September 2026 · closes 8 October 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
8/2/1UMH1772-26/27Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
SUPPLY, INSTALLATION, AND COMMISSIONING OF A NEXT-GEN EMAIL SECURITY SOLUTION WITH ARCHIVING AND CYBERSECURITY USER AWARENESS TRAINING PLATFORM FOR A PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS
advertised 10 September 2026 · closes 20 October 2026 · KwaZulu-Natal · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
8/2/1/UMH1758-26/27Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
SUPPLY, INSTALLATION, COMMISSION AND MAINTENANCE OF RICHARDS BAY AND EMPANGENI INTERNET LINKS FOR A PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS
advertised 10 September 2026 · closes 20 October 2026 · KwaZulu-Natal · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
8/2/1UMH1762- 26/27Closed as published on 11 October 2026
CLEANING INCLUDING TURF MANAGEMENT AT UMHLATHUZE SOUTH MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SUPPLY, INSTALL, SERVICE OF HYGIENE EQUIPMENT INCLUDING ALL CONSUMABLES FOR A PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS
advertised 17 August 2026 · closes 25 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of uMhlathuze

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

34 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	LANGELIHLE GOODMAN CEBEKHULUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	38,8%	49,1%
Ward 2	CHRISTO MARIUS BOTHADEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	77,7%	50,0%
Ward 3	HENNING PETRUS DE WETDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	76,7%	49,4%
Ward 4	RYNIE FREDERIKA KEARNSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	30,1%	45,2%
Ward 5	SHADRACK HLALECABANGA ZULUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	59,5%	49,0%
Ward 6	MSAWAKHE ANTHONY MTHETHWAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	54,3%	51,7%
Ward 7	ISAAC NTOKOZO ZWANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	57,5%	43,9%
Ward 8	NKOSINGIPHILE CYRIL MDHLETSHEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	50,6%	40,5%
Ward 9	MANDLA MDAKAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	35,6%	41,6%
Ward 10	MDUDUZI SYLVESTER DLAMINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	49,3%	46,0%
Ward 11	THEMBINKOSI ZIBANIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	47,3%	52,5%
Ward 12	VINCENT SGU DLUDLAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 14 September 2022	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	59,3%	42,3%
Ward 13	SIBUSISO NDUNAKAZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 27 September 2023	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	63,3%	51,3%
Ward 14	AUBREY MONDLI MTHETHWAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	61,1%	42,7%
Ward 15	THOBILE CYNTHIA DUBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	49,8%	44,7%
Ward 16	NKONZOYAKHE GODSHERO DONDAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	44,1%	37,2%
Ward 17	NOKUBONGA NOMTHANDAZO BLOSEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	52,3%	36,1%
Ward 18	KWAZIKWENKOSI SELBY DLAMINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	59,9%	53,0%
Ward 19	THAMSANQA PRINCE MTHIYANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	45,2%	37,6%
Ward 20	SIBONISO BASIL NTSHANGASEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	45,7%	38,0%
Ward 21	SIBONGISENI MASONDOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	54,4%	35,5%
Ward 22	ZITHA KENAS MTHEMBUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	50,7%	47,6%
Ward 23	BAREND JACOBUS DE LANGEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	49,0%	43,2%
Ward 24	TRUEMAN SBONELO MTHALANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	47,6%	41,1%
Ward 25	SANDILE COLLIN SIBISIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	52,0%	40,9%
Ward 26	JEEVARUTHNAM GOVENDERINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	37,6%	45,4%
Ward 27	MTHOBISI SENZOSENKOSI MTSHALIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	53,8%	39,7%
Ward 28	SIPHELELE MZUVELE GUMEDEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	57,4%	34,3%
Ward 29	NKOSINATHI SIMISO MNGOMEZULUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	62,3%	48,2%
Ward 30	NGCEBO TREASURE MLAMBOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	53,6%	34,6%
Ward 31	SIPHAMANDLA WESLEY GCABASHEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	45,6%	51,5%
Ward 32	ZAKHELE NTSHABAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	50,6%	55,3%
Ward 33	MUZIWOKUTHULA MSIMANGOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	50,8%	52,2%
Ward 34	NTUTHUKO FANELESIBONGE MAKHANYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	42,9%	20,4%

“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 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.