Dannhauser
Local municipality
Seal
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	Amajuba
Seat	Dannhauser
Wards	11
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Bongekile Magdalene Shabalala
Area
• Total	1,516 km2 (585 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	102,161
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	97.5%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	1.4%
• White	0.8%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Zulu	93.9%
• English	2.1%
• Other	4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN254

Dannhauser Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Dannhauser) is a local municipality within the Amajuba District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The municipality is named after Renier Dannhauser, a German settler who in 1872 purchased four farms in the area from the Natal Government.^[3] The major economic sectors are agriculture and mining. Mining, however, is undergoing a movement away from large scale operations to smaller operations.^[4]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[5]

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirteen wards, while the remaining twelve are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, winning a plurality of nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.^[6]