City of Matlosana


The City of Matlosana is a local municipality in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Buffelsfontein0.241,825Sotho
Dominionville6.24542Afrikaans
Faan Meintjies Nature Reserve8.8618Xhosa
GTC Village0.41445Sotho
Hartebeesfontein3.721,275Afrikaans
Hartebeestfontein Mine60.654,350Sotho
Jouberton15.74104,977Tswana
Kanana9.9066,936Sotho
Khayalihle0.091,501Xhosa
Khuma7.0842,963Tswana
Klerksdorp115.1759,509Afrikaans
Margaret Mine56.230-
Orkney137.7015,539Afrikaans
Paballong Village0.24516Xhosa
Stilfontein Gold Mine0.32470Tswana
Stilfontein7.6314,713Afrikaans
Tigane1.2112,111Tswana
Vaal Reefs6.1511,345Xhosa
Remainder of the municipality3,125.0920,194Tswana

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine wards, while the remaining thirty-eight 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 won a majority of forty-six seats in the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 10 July 2019, a ward previously held by a DA councillor was won by the FF+ candidate. The council was reconfigured as seen below:

Languages

The 2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality:
36.0% Setswana;
19.9% Sesotho;
17.3% Afrikaans;
14.0% IsiXhosa;
4.3% English;
2.1% IsiZulu;
1.2% Xitsonga...