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The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality council consists of 222 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 111 councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in 111 wards, while the remaining 111 are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
General elections were held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces. [1] [2] This was the 7th general election held under the conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.
The 2021 South African Municipal Elections were held on 1 November 2021, [1] to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. Being the 6th municipal election held in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994. These held - since then -every five years.
Pappas served as a member of the eThekwini city council from 2016 until 2019 and as a DA Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2019 to 2021. In September 2023, Pappas was included on the "TIME100 Next list" by Time magazine. He is his party's candidate for the premiership of KwaZulu-Natal in the country's 2024 election. [2] [3]
Under Adec's banner, he stood as a candidate in the 2021 local elections and returned to the eThekwini council as a proportional-representation councillor in November 2021. [21] Under his leadership, Adec and a handful of other small parties joined a coalition with the ANC which allowed the ANC to form a government in the municipality despite ...
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.
In the aftermath of the May 2024 election, the incumbent Mayor of eThekwini, Mxolisi Kaunda, was asked by the ANC to resign his mayoral office in order to take up a parliamentary seat. Xaba, in turn, was sworn in to an ANC council seat in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. [28]
The party contested the 2021 South African municipal elections, targeting Durban and the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] As of late, the Abantu Batho Congress has also come out in support of an independent Zulu state.