Moretele Local Municipality
Moretele Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Moretele; Tsonga: Masipala wa Moretele; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Moretele) is a local municipality within the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa. As of 2011, its population was approximately 180,000, a majority of whom speak Setswana as a first language.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Place | Code | Area (km) | Population | Most spoken language |
---|---|---|---|---|
Agisaneng | 60101 | 9.42 | 120 | Northern Sotho |
Amandebele A Lebelo | 60102 | 4.99 | 154 | English |
Bahwaduba | 60103 | 180.68 | 32,023 | Tswana |
Bakgatla Ba Ga Mosetlha | 60104 | 459.19 | 45,114 | Tswana |
Bakgatla Ba Mmakau | 60105 | 109.41 | 1,111 | Tswana |
Bakgatla Ba Mphe Batho | 60106 | 45.81 | 24,329 | Tswana |
Baphuthing Ba Ga Nawa | 60107 | 228.03 | 11,024 | Tswana |
Diphala | 60108 | 0.61 | 820 | Tswana |
Jonathan | 60109 | 4.11 | 114 | Zulu |
Kopanong | 60110 | 84.98 | 28,839 | Tsonga |
Modimole Magogelo | 60111 | 104.32 | 11,365 | Tswana |
Mogogelo | 60112 | 26.02 | 10,500 | Tsonga |
Moretele | 60113 | 30.44 | 4,933 | Northern Sotho |
Temba | 60114 | 2.19 | 5,310 | Tsonga |
Thulwe | 60115 | 15.15 | 465 | Tsonga |
Tsoga o Itirele | 60116 | 64.32 | 1,687 | Zulu |
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Politics
The municipal council consists of fifty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-six wards, while the remaining twenty-six 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) won a majority of thirty-five seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
African National Congress | 25,468 | 62.81 | 26 | 26,922 | 67.50 | 9 | 35 | |
Economic Freedom Fighters | 6,416 | 15.82 | 0 | 6,939 | 17.40 | 9 | 9 | |
Democratic Alliance | 1,667 | 4.11 | 0 | 1,730 | 4.34 | 2 | 2 | |
Independent candidates | 2,246 | 5.54 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Forum for Service Delivery | 960 | 2.37 | 0 | 1,202 | 3.01 | 2 | 2 | |
Agenda to Citizenry Governors | 1,238 | 3.05 | 0 | 764 | 1.92 | 1 | 1 | |
African Independent Congress | 824 | 2.03 | 0 | 912 | 2.29 | 1 | 1 | |
Defenders of the People | 569 | 1.40 | 0 | 471 | 1.18 | 1 | 1 | |
Economic Emancipation Forum | 609 | 1.50 | 0 | 28 | 0.07 | 1 | 1 | |
8 other parties | 551 | 1.36 | 0 | 918 | 2.30 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 40,548 | 100.00 | 26 | 39,886 | 100.00 | 26 | 52 | |
Valid votes | 40,548 | 97.91 | 39,886 | 97.33 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 864 | 2.09 | 1,094 | 2.67 | ||||
Total votes | 41,412 | 100.00 | 40,980 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 94,713 | 43.72 | 94,713 | 43.27 |
References
- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Moretele". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
External links
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