Local Municipality of Madibeng


The Local Municipality of Madibeng is a local municipality in Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The seat of local municipality is Brits. The popular tourist area of Hartebeespoort is also located in the municipality.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Bafokeng7.3617,380Tswana
Bakgatla Ba Mmakau214.9758,055Tswana
Bakwena Ba Magopa95.4333,566Tswana
Bakwena Boo Modimosana Ba Ga Makau387.2615,613Tswana
Bapo Ba Ga Mogale20.5337,311Tswana
Borakalalo Nature Reserve73.8548Tswana
Brits24.8012,383Afrikaans
Damonsville0.591,680Afrikaans
Elandsdrift0.08255Xhosa
Ga-Rankuwa508.0237,533Tswana
Hartbeespoort Dam Nature Reserve23.9942Afrikaans
Hartebeesfontein New Paradise1.3393Afrikaans
Hartebeespoort13.276,329Afrikaans
Jonathan26.87625Zulu
Lethlabile10.3835,606Tswana
Magaliesberg Nature Reserve20.80329Afrikaans
Maroelakop0.472,523Xhosa
Mooinooi3.153,894Afrikaans
Oskraal15.74934Tswana
Oukasie3.7319,627Tswana
Pelindaba20.23156Afrikaans
Sechaba-Sa-Ba-Taung27.5312,306Sotho
Sonop3.041,946Afrikaans
Western Platinum Mines0.795,090Xhosa
Remainder of the municipality2,310.1634,936Tswana

Politics

The municipal council consists of eighty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Forty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in forty-one wards, while the remaining forty 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-five seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.