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Kaunda was elected Mayor of eThekwini on 5 September 2019. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] On 12 June 2024, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal recalled Kaunda as mayor of eThekwini and announced that he would be taking up a seat in the National Council of Provinces , the upper house of parliament. [ 19 ]
The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseThekwini) is a metropolitan municipality, created in 2000, that includes the city of Durban and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. As of 2011, the majority of its 3,442,361 inhabitants spoke isiZulu.
Vusumuzi Cyril Xaba (born 14 February 1967) is a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal.He has been the Mayor of eThekwini since July 2024. A member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC), he formerly served in the National Assembly of South Africa between July 2019 and May 2024.
By early 2011, Nxumalo was Provincial Chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal branch of the SACP, an office he held in parallel to his position as eThekwini Speaker, and, ahead of the 2011 local elections, he was considered the frontrunner to succeed longstanding incumbent Obed Mlaba as Mayor of eThekwini. [3] He was indeed elected in 2011. [1]
Zandile Ruth Thelma Gumede (born 12 May 1961) is a South African who has been serving as a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2020. She served as the Executive Mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality from 2016 until 2019.
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa that is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into forty-three local municipalities.
A member of the African National Congress, she was the Deputy Mayor of eThekwini Local Municipality between August 2016 and September 2019. During that time, from June 2019 onwards, she was the Acting Mayor while Mayor Zandile Gumede faced criminal charges. In January 2023 Peer was co-opted onto the ANC National Executive Committee.
In the aftermath of the 2004 general election, the ANC's Mike Sutcliffe, municipal manager of eThekwini, hired Reddy as a contract consultant in his office. [12] The DA and Inkatha Freedom Party objected to his appointment, with the DA alleging that the job offer was the ANC's way of paying its "political debts" to Reddy. [13]