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Alfred Duma Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Alfred Duma) is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It was established for the August 2016 local elections by merging the Emnambithi/Ladysmith and Indaka local municipalities.
The Alfred Duma Local Municipality council consists of seventy-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Thirty-seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-seven wards, while the remaining thirty-six are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
Alfred Duma Local Municipality: KZN238 Uthukela Ladysmith: 3,764 415,036 110.3 Big Five Hlabisa Local Municipality: KZN276 Umkhanyakude Hlabisa: 3,466 131,755 37.97
Ladysmith is the seat for both the Alfred Duma Local Municipality and Uthukela District Municipality. The town was named after Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith , also known as "Lady Smith," the Spanish wife of Sir Harry Smith , the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1847–1852.
Indaka is a predominantly rural municipality, and has no national roads running through it. [4] Indaka's economy is currently relying on subsistence agriculture, government services and private household employment. [4] After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Alfred Duma Local Municipality.
Emnambithi-Ladysmith Local Municipality was a municipality in the Uthukela District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is accessible from the N3 and N11 national highways. The town of Ladysmith is the economic hub of the municipality; it accommodates the municipal offices, major schools, main police station and magistrates court, as ...
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