# Okhahlamba Local Municipality

Okhahlamba Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala woKhahlamba) is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

## Society and culture
### Museums, monuments and memorials
#### Spion Kop

This large battlefield located some 30 km outside Ladysmith contains the mass graves of British soldiers, individual graves as well as a number of memorials, including a Boer memorial, British memorial, South Lancashire memorial and Imperial Light Infantry memorial.

### Nature reserves
#### Spioenkop Nature Reserve

25 kilometres (16 mi) from Ladysmith is one of South Africa’s popular wildlife sanctuaries, Spioenkop Nature Reserve. This 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) reserve is home to animals such as the rhino, giraffe and zebra. The sporting activities that Spioenkop offers include hiking, horse riding, angling, yachting, water-skiing and power boating. Spioenkop is also supplies other parts of Gauteng with water because in Gauteng there is a shortage of water.

## Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
| Place | Code | Area (km$^2$) | Population |
| Amangwane | 51701 | 737.10 | 67,829 |
| Amazizi | 51702 | 95.71 | 16,010 |
| Bergville Part 1 | 51703 | 80.11 | 27,670 |
| Bergville Part 2 | 51715 | 2.53 | 702 |
| Drakensberg | 51704 | 0.40 | 75 |
| Driefontein, KwaZulu-Natal | 51705 | 1.41 | 231 |
| Estcourt | 51706 | 4.79 | 988 |
| Geluksburg | 51707 | 1.08 | 209 |
| Jagersrust | 51708 | 0.63 | 199 |
| Northern Natal Drakensberg | 51709 | 142.17 | 3 |
| Rugged Glen Nature Reserve | 51711 | 7.66 | 15 |
| Spioenkop Dam Nature Reserve | 51712 | 41.63 | 48 |
| Van Reenen | 51713 | 0.48 | 78 |
| Winterton | 51714 | 1.81 | 2,186 |
| Remainder of the municipality | 51710 | 2,365.82 | 21,277 |

## Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a plurality of nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
| Party | Party | Ward | Ward | Ward | List | List | List | Total seats |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Total seats |
| | Inkatha Freedom Party | 10,049 | 30.24 | 8 | 10,227 | 30.74 | 1 | 9 |
| | African National Congress | 9,634 | 28.99 | 3 | 9,751 | 29.31 | 5 | 8 |
| | African People's Movement | 6,570 | 19.77 | 3 | 6,460 | 19.41 | 3 | 6 |
| | Economic Freedom Fighters | 2,017 | 6.07 | 0 | 2,040 | 6.13 | 2 | 2 |
| | National Freedom Party | 1,732 | 5.21 | 1 | 1,708 | 5.13 | 1 | 2 |
| | Democratic Alliance | 1,049 | 3.16 | 0 | 1,035 | 3.11 | 1 | 1 |
| | National Peoples Ambassadors | 526 | 1.58 | 0 | 515 | 1.55 | 1 | 1 |
| | Freedom Front Plus | 388 | 1.17 | 0 | 318 | 0.96 | 0 | 0 |
| | African Transformation Movement | 291 | 0.88 | 0 | 254 | 0.76 | 0 | 0 |
| | Abantu Batho Congress | 269 | 0.81 | 0 | 223 | 0.67 | 0 | 0 |
| | National People's Front | 202 | 0.61 | 0 | 116 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 |
| | Congress of the People | 135 | 0.41 | 0 | 125 | 0.38 | 0 | 0 |
| | African People's Convention | 56 | 0.17 | 0 | 157 | 0.47 | 0 | 0 |
| | National Democratic Convention | 81 | 0.24 | 0 | 99 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 |
| | People's Revolutionary Movement | 75 | 0.23 | 0 | 100 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 |
| | United Democratic Movement | 50 | 0.15 | 0 | 58 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 |
| | African Mantungwa Community | 60 | 0.18 | 0 | 45 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 |
| | United Cultural Movement | 46 | 0.14 | 0 | 43 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 33,230 | 100.00 | 15 | 33,274 | 100.00 | 14 | 29 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 33,230 | 97.86 | | 33,274 | 98.18 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 725 | 2.14 | | 616 | 1.82 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 33,955 | 100.00 | | 33,890 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 61,114 | 55.56 | | 61,114 | 55.45 | | |