Endumeni Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Umzinyathi District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and means “a place of thunderstorm” in isiZulu. Being at the heart of the KwaZulu- Natal battlefields, Endumeni is a dynamic, developmenta …
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South Africa’s largest city and a prime economic centre – the biggest metropolitan municipality in the country
A coalition government exists when:
In local government, a governing coalition is aimed at electing an (executive) mayor, and other members of the executive, and then supporting their proposals on, for example, the budget and municipal policies.
Year | Coalition Partners | Duration |
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1994 | African National Congress (ANC) National Party (NP) Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) | 27 April 1994 – 3 February 1997 |
2024 | African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance (DA) Patriotic Alliance (PA), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), GOOD, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Vryheidsfront Plus (FF+), United Democratic Movement (UDM), Rise Mzansi and Al Jama-ah. | 29 May 2024 – Current |
Year | Coalition Partners | Duration | Province |
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1999 | African National Congress (ANC) New National Party (NNP), Democratic Party (DP), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) | 1999/2000 | Western Cape |
1999 | African National Congress (ANC) National Party (NP) Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) | Electoral cycle | KwaZulu-Natal |
2000 | African National Congress (ANC) - New National Party (NNP), | 2000-2004 | Western Cape |
2004 | ANC obtained 38/80 = 46.98% | 2004 – 2006 | KwaZulu-Natal |
2024 | African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Rise Mzansi and the Patriotic Alliance (PA). | 29 May 2024 – Current | Gauteng |
2024 | Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA), National Freedom Party (NFP) | 29 May 2024 – Current | KwaZulu-Natal |
2024 | African National Congress (ANC), Vryheidsfront Plus (FF+) and Patriotic Alliance (PA) | 29 May 2024 – Current | Northern Cape |
Year | Coalitions |
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2000 | 29 |
2006 | 31 |
2011 | 37 |
2016 | 27 |
2021 | 70 |
Province | No. of Coalition (% of Province) |
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Eastern Cape | 3 of 38 (8%) |
Free State | 4 of 19 (21%) |
Gauteng | 8 of 10 (80%) |
KwaZulu-Natal | 21 of 44 (48%) |
Limpopo | 2 of 22 (9%) |
Mpumalanga | 3 of 17 (18%) |
Northern Cape | 10 of 27 (37%) |
North-West | 3 of 19 (16%) |
Western Cape | 16 of 24(67%) |