Msinga Local Municipality

Msinga Municipality is a local municipality within the Umzinyathi District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Msinga is an isiZulu word meaning "a current in the sea where air movement causes ripples on top of the water surface and ends up influencing the nearby climatic conditions through its breeze". The municipality is largely located in deep gorges of the Tugela and Buffalo rivers, isolated from the immediate surrounding municipal areas. The population dynamics result in a growing rural area and a declining urban area in the municipality, contrary to most other areas in the country. This can be attributed to the fact that the urban areas of municipality are very small and are unable to provide the normal range of goods and services provided in urban areas.
It is a poverty stricken area with few economic resources and little economic activity. Social services and private households generate 29% of the income for the area.

Main places

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

Place	Code	Area	Population
Baso		85.54	9,655
Bomvu		371.75	30,307
Chunu		367.35	41,560
Gwazumlungu Nlovu		9.63	753
Khanyile		9.75	108
Majozi		10.80	1,099
Mawuzini		5.49	457
Mthembu		151.80	19,160
Mtungwa		4.02	1,756
Ngome		3.90	1,772
Ngubane		93.45	5,849
Othame		8.93	1,135
Pomeroy		7.01	998
Qamu		628.90	50,867
Qizi Mtshshali		6.07	694
Remainder of the municipality		737.60	1,850

The municipal council consists of forty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-one wards, while the remaining twenty 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 a majority of twenty-seven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.