Umzinyathi is one of the 11 district municipalities

Districts of South Africa

South Africa is divided into 52 districts . The 12th amendment to the Constitution reduced this number from 53. Another effect of this amendment is that each district is now completely contained within a province, thus eliminating cross-border districts. The districts also cover the entire area of...

 ("districts") of KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 province in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. The seat of Umzinyathi is Dundee

Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal

The coal mining town of Dundee is situated in a valley of the Biggarsberg mountains in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa . It is part of the Endumeni Local Municipality, Umzinyathi District. It is rich in coal deposits...

. The majority of its 456 452 people speak IsiZulu (2001 Census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

). The district code is DC24

Neighbours

Umzinyathi is surrounded by:

• Amajuba
  Amajuba District Municipality
  Amajuba is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province. The seat of Amajuba is Newcastle. The majority of its 468 040 people speak Zulu . The district code is DC25-Tourism:...
  
   (DC25)
• iLembe
  ILembe District Municipality
  iLembe is one of the 11 district municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The seat of iLembe is KwaDukuza . The majority of its 560 409 people speak Zulu...
  
   (DC29)
• Umgungundlovu
  Umgungundlovu District Municipality
  Umgungundlovu is one of the 11 district municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal province. The seat of Umgungundlovu is Pietermaritzburg. The majority of its 927 834 people speak Zulu...
  
   (DC22)
• Uthukela
  Uthukela District Municipality
  uThukela is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The seat of uThukela is the city of Ladysmith. The majority of its 656 986 people speak IsiZulu...
  
   (DC23)
• uThungulu
  UThungulu District Municipality
  Uthungulu is one of the 11 district municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The seat of uThungulu is Richards Bay. The majority of its 885 944 people speak Zulu...
  
   (DC28)
• Zululand
  Zululand District Municipality
  Zululand is one of the 11 district municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal province. The seat of Zululand is Ulundi. The majority of its 804,456 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC26...
  
   (DC26)

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities

Local municipality (South Africa)

In South Africa, a local municipality or Category B municipality is a type of municipality that serves as the third, and most local, tier of local government...

:

Local municipality	Population	%
Msinga Msinga Local Municipality Msinga Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Umzinyathi District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The name means 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.Msinga is...	168 022	36.81%
Nqutu	145 033	31.77%
Umvoti Umvoti Local Municipality Umvoti Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Umzinyathi District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.The municipality is named after the Umvoti River, which runs from the west to the east towards the Indian Ocean...	92 292	20.22%
Endumeni Endumeni Local Municipality Endumeni Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Umzinyathi District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Endumeni is an isiZulu name meaning "a place of thunderstorm". The municipality shares its name with the Endumeni hill....	51 110	11.20%

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

.

Language	Population	%
IsiZulu	422 801	92.63%
Sesotho	13 241	2.90%
English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	12 025	2.63%
Afrikaans Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...	4 843	1.06%
IsiNdebele	937	0.21%
IsiXhosa	645	0.14%
Sepedi	634	0.14%
Other	618	0.14%
SiSwati	459	0.10%
Setswana	172	0.04%
Xitsonga	51	0.01%
Tshivenda	31	0.01%

Gender

Gender	Population	%
Female	255 660	56.01%
Male	200 792	43.99%

Ethnic group

Ethnic group	Population	%
Black African	439 889	96.37%
White	7 336	1.61%
Indian/Asian	6 593	1.44%
Coloured	2 634	0.58%

Age

Age	Population	%
000 - 004	60 159	13.18%
005 - 009	67 630	14.82%
010 - 014	66 994	14.68%
015 - 019	59 156	12.96%
020 - 024	36 022	7.89%
025 - 029	27 821	6.10%
030 - 034	22 830	5.00%
035 - 039	22 211	4.87%
040 - 044	18 051	3.95%
045 - 049	16 182	3.55%
050 - 054	13 935	3.05%
055 - 059	10 810	2.37%
060 - 064	10 531	2.31%
065 - 069	7 612	1.67%
070 - 074	7 345	1.61%
075 - 079	4 253	0.93%
080 - 084	3 252	0.71%
085 - 089	896	0.20%
090 - 094	391	0.09%
095 - 099	274	0.06%
100 plus	97	0.02%

Election results

Election results for Umzinyathi in the South African general election, 2004

South African general election, 2004

Legislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority....

.

• Population 18 and over: 224 263 [49.13% of total population]
• Total votes: 122 689 [26.88% of total population]
• Voting % estimate: 54.71% votes as a % of population 18 and over

  Party	Votes	%
  Inkhata Freedom Party Inkatha Freedom Party The Inkatha Freedom Party is a political party in South Africa. Since its founding, it has been led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. It is currently the fourth largest party in the National Assembly of South Africa.-History:...	79 544	64.83%
  African National Congress African National Congress The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...	29 618	24.14%
  Democratic Alliance	6 884	5.61%
  African Christian Democratic Party	1 917	1.56%
  United Democratic Movement	739	0.60%
  Freedom Front Plus	645	0.53%
  New National Party	577	0.47%
  Azanian People's Organisation	351	0.29%
  Minority Front	303	0.25%
  Independent Democrats	291	0.24%
  PJC	240	0.20%
  Pan African Congress	226	0.18%
  United Christian Democratic Party	202	0.16%
  SOPA	181	0.15%
  CDP	173	0.14%
  KISS	172	0.14%
  UF	148	0.12%
  NA	147	0.12%
  EMSA	133	0.11%
  TOP	128	0.10%
  NLP	70	0.06%
  Total	122 689	100.00%

External links

• Stats SA Census 2001 page
• Independent Electoral Commission 2004 election results