The Big Five False Bay Local Municipality


The Big Five False Bay was an administrative area in the Umkhanyakude District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
The municipality was named after the Big Five animals which are found in the game reserves that are located in the area e.g. the Hluhluwe game reserve, the Mfolozi game reserve and the Khinda game reserve. False Bay is part of the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park and it forms part of the newly established municipality.
After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Big Five Hlabisa Local Municipality.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Hlabisa30.0130
Hluhluwe Township0.781,261
Hluhluwe7.11992
Makhasa72.2910,314
Mdletshe30.756
Mnqobokazi111.287,953
Nibela99.988,423
Remainder of the municipality809.112,134

Politics

The municipal council consisted of seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Four councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in four wards, while the remaining three were chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 no party obtained a majority, and the African National Congress and the National Freedom Party formed a coalition to govern the municipality.
The following table shows the results of the election.