Msunduzi Local Municipality


Msunduzi Local Municipality is a local municipality in Umgungundlovu District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It encompasses the city of Pietermaritzburg, which is the capital of the KwaZulu-Natal province and the main economic hub of Umgungundlovu District Municipality.
Msunduzi Municipality is situated on the N3 highway at a junction of an industrial corridor and an
agro-industrial corridor. On the regional scale, it is located at the cross section of the N3
corridor and the Greytown Road corridor to the north, a tourist route to Drakensberg and Kokstad Road to the south.
The city of Pietermaritzburg is a provincial and national centre of educational excellence. Pietermaritzburg is a seat of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is home to several other institutions of higher learning. In addition, Pietermaritzburg is home to a host of private and government-owned institutions of primary and secondary education.

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine wards, while the remaining thirty-nine 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 fifty-two seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.

Mayors

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Ashdown3.0313,531
Edendale50.5379,573
Imbali23.4079,115
Inadi87.2534,131
Mafunze60.5536,186
Mpumuza97.5655,260
Nxamalala12.9414,417
Pietermaritzburg160.99223,519
Sobantu1.078,155
Wilgerfontein0.431,073
Ximba5.512,947
Remainder of the municipality144.535,315