Mogalakwena Local Municipality

Mogalakwena Municipality () is a local municipality within the Waterberg District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It's named after the mogalakwena river which comes from the babina Kwena fierce Nile crocodile. The seat is Mokopane. The area constitute of a cosmopolitan of different chiefdoms: mainly Bakone (Masenya le Matlala), Lebelo kgomo, Transvaal Ndebele Langa & Kekana, phokela, Lekalekale, babirwa.

Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language Babirwa 919015.173,328Northern Sotho Bakenberg Langa 919021,223.97101,580Northern Sotho Bakoni Manetji 91903581.6027,375Northern Sotho Ba-Mokopane 91904130.4944,026Northern Sotho Batlokwa 9190596.648,190Northern Sotho Lekalakala Part 1 919069.2420,394Northern Sotho Lekalakala Part 2 919172.501,305Northern Sotho Mahwelereng 9190710.1232,819Northern Sotho Matlala Dichoeneng 919092.343,265Northern Sotho Matlala 919082.48535Northern Sotho Mokerong 9191123.9345Northern Sotho Nkiditlana 919121.301,202Northern Sotho Potgietersrus(Ga Mokopane) 9191365.9719,391Afrikaans Rebone 919142.602,579Northern Sotho Sekgakgapeng 919154.0012,113Northern Sotho Tsebishi 919160.921,838Northern Sotho Remainder of the municipality 919104,021.1218,464Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-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 African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty-two seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.

Mogalakwena Local Municipality

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