Uthukela District Municipality

The uThukela District Municipality (UMasipala wesiFunda sase uThukela) is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Its seat is Ladysmith. As of 2011, a majority of its 668,848 inhabitants spoke isiZulu. The district code is DC23.

Neighbours
uThukela is surrounded by:
 * Amajuba to the north (DC25)
 * uMgungundlovu to the east (DC22)
 * uMzinyathi to the south (DC24)
 * the kingdom of Lesotho to the south-east
 * Thabo Mofutsanyane in the Free State to the west (DC19)

Local municipalities
The district contains the following local municipalities:

Demographics
The following statistics are from the 2001 census.

Election results
Election results for uThukela in the South African general election, 2004.
 * Population 18 and over: 350 092 [53.29% of total population]
 * Total votes: 177 230 [26.98% of total population]
 * Voting % estimate: 50.62% votes as a % of population 18 and over