Jozini Local Municipality

Jozini Municipality is a local municipality within the Umkhanyakude District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Significant portions of the municipality have been neglected in terms of economic development. There is a great disparity between the level of service and infrastructure provision between settlement nodes, such as the towns of Mkuze and Jozini, and the surrounding rural areas. Most of the rural area is associated with a lack of development, poverty and poor service provision.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Place	Code	Area	Population
Ingwavuma		1.72	1,089
Jozini		0.45	543
Manukuza/Jobe		280.65	18,277
Mathenjwa		435.13	26,332
Mkuze		1.04	1,834
Mngomezulu		277.82	18,676
Myeni/Ngwenya		138.34	10,146
Myeni/Ntsinde		172.91	16,524
Ndumu Game Reserve		110.43	72
Nyawo		909.85	68,148
Sqakatha		238.22	19,818
Remainder of the municipality		523.02	2,628

The municipal council consists of 45 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party won 24 out of the 45 seats.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.