Dannhauser Local Municipality


Dannhauser Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Amajuba District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The municipality is named after Renier Dannhauser, a German settler who in 1872 purchased four farms in the area from the then owner, the Natal government.
The major economic sectors within Dannhauser are agriculture and mining. Mining is however, undergoing a movement away from large scale operations to smaller operations.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Dannhauser17.724,903
Durnacol19.491,598
Ekudabuleni0.30565
Gule50.478,451
Hattingspruit2.67476
Hlubi360.5979,377
Remainder of the municipality1,064.457,397

Politics

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