Jozini
Local municipality
Seal
Location in KwaZulu-Natal
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uMkhanyakude
Seat	Jozini
Wards	23
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Mfananaye Mathe (IFP)
Area
• Total	3,442 km2 (1,329 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	186,502
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	99.2%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• White	0.3%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Zulu	95.1%
• English	1.2%
• Southern Ndebele	1.1%
• Other	2.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN272

Jozini Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Jozini) is a local municipality within the Umkhanyakude District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Significant portions of the municipality have been neglected in terms of economic development. There is a great disparity between the level of service and infrastructure provision between settlement nodes, such as the towns of Mkuze and Jozini, and the surrounding rural areas. Most of the rural area is associated with a lack of development, poverty and poor service provision.^[3]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[4]

Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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 Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a majority of twenty-four seats.

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[5]