# Jozini Local Municipality

Jozini Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Jozini) 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 (km$^2$) | Population |
| Ingwavuma | 53301 | 1.72 | 1,089 |
| Jozini | 53312 | 0.45 | 543 |
| Manukuza/Jobe | 53303 | 280.65 | 18,277 |
| Mathenjwa | 53304 | 435.13 | 26,332 |
| Mkuze | 53305 | 1.04 | 1,834 |
| Mngomezulu | 53306 | 277.82 | 18,676 |
| Myeni/Ngwenya | 53307 | 138.34 | 10,146 |
| Myeni/Ntsinde | 53308 | 172.91 | 16,524 |
| Ndumu Game Reserve | 53309 | 110.43 | 72 |
| Nyawo | 53310 | 909.85 | 68,148 |
| Sqakatha | 53311 | 238.22 | 19,818 |
| Remainder of the municipality | 53302 | 523.02 | 2,628 |

## Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-five 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 (IFP) won a majority of twenty-four seats.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
| Party | Party | Ward | Ward | Ward | List | List | List | Total seats |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Total seats |
| | Inkatha Freedom Party | 31,073 | 50.56 | 19 | 32,556 | 53.64 | 5 | 24 |
| | African National Congress | 20,739 | 33.74 | 2 | 22,253 | 36.66 | 14 | 16 |
| | Economic Freedom Fighters | 2,617 | 4.26 | 0 | 2,884 | 4.75 | 2 | 2 |
| | Independent candidates | 5,485 | 8.92 | 2 | | | | 2 |
| | Academic Congress Union | | | | 981 | 1.62 | 1 | 1 |
| | Democratic Alliance | 340 | 0.55 | 0 | 348 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 |
| | National Freedom Party | 290 | 0.47 | 0 | 356 | 0.59 | 0 | 0 |
| | United Christian Democratic Party | 264 | 0.43 | 0 | 244 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 |
| | Independent Alliance | 56 | 0.09 | 0 | 421 | 0.69 | 0 | 0 |
| | African Transformation Movement | 190 | 0.31 | 0 | 224 | 0.37 | 0 | 0 |
| | Abantu Batho Congress | 123 | 0.20 | 0 | 138 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 |
| | United Democratic Movement | 103 | 0.17 | 0 | 105 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 |
| | African Christian Democratic Party | 64 | 0.10 | 0 | 94 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 |
| | National People's Front | 78 | 0.13 | 0 | 48 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 |
| | Black First Land First | 31 | 0.05 | 0 | 21 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 |
| | Democratic Union Plus | 9 | 0.01 | 0 | 20 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 61,462 | 100.00 | 23 | 60,693 | 100.00 | 22 | 45 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 61,462 | 98.74 | | 60,693 | 97.83 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 784 | 1.26 | | 1,344 | 2.17 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 62,246 | 100.00 | | 62,037 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 103,712 | 60.02 | | 103,712 | 59.82 | | |