[3] Towns within the municipal boundaries include Friedenau, KwaDweshula, St Faith’s, and Umzumbe.

[4] Income levels in the municipality are very low, and reflect a situation of acute impoverishment.

Households rely for survival on pension and other welfare grants, migrant remittances, informal earnings and casual employment wages.

Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty seats on the council.