Mogalakwena Local Municipality


Mogalakwena Local Municipality is located in the Waterberg District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. The seat of Mogalakwena Local Municipality is Mokopane.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Babirwa5.173,328Northern Sotho
Bakenberg1,223.97101,580Northern Sotho
Bakoni Manetji581.6027,375Northern Sotho
Ba-Mokopane130.4944,026Northern Sotho
Batlokwa96.648,190Northern Sotho
Lekalakala Part 19.2420,394Northern Sotho
Lekalakala Part 22.501,305Northern Sotho
Mahwelereng10.1232,819Northern Sotho
Matlala Dichoeneng2.343,265Northern Sotho
Matlala2.48535Northern Sotho
Mokerong23.9345Northern Sotho
Nkiditlana1.301,202Northern Sotho
Potgietersrus65.9719,391Afrikaans
Rebone2.602,579Northern Sotho
Sekgakgapeng4.0012,113Northern Sotho
Tsebishi0.921,838Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality4,021.1218,464Northern 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of forty-one seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.