At the age of 16, Mavundla left school to go and work for a tyre manufacturing company in Welkom in the Free State.
He attracted controversy in 2008 when he removed a portrait of Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi from the uMvoti council chamber and placed it in the boot of his car.
[3] In 2009, Mavundla burnt a businessman's R2 million truck after it drove over sugar cane at this property in Seven Oaks.
As mayor, he refused to accept his annual salary of R700,000 and used his personal car for official duties.
[7] He stood as the NFP candidate in a by-election in ward 7 in the uMvoti Municipality in August 2019 and won the seat from the ANC in a landslide.
[14] The ANC's Mxolisi Kaunda was then re-elected as mayor with the help of smaller parties, including the ABC.
An insider within the ABC claimed that Mavundla took the decision to side with the ANC because working with the Democratic Alliance (DA) would have been difficult.
[18] Mavundla stood as a candidate for eThekwini ward 10 in a by-election in November 2022, finishing third with 1% of the vote behind the DA (95%) and ANC (4%).
[19] Despite an interdict being granted by the Durban High Court, the ANC in the eThekwini municipality tabled and voted for a motion of no confidence removing Mavundla as the deputy mayor.