Mogale City Local Municipality


Mogale City Local Municipality is a local municipality in West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, in South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Kagiso21.12100,940Tswana
Krugersdorp195.9986,614Afrikaans
Magaliesburg7.432,512Tswana
Mogale City0.611,411Tswana
Muldersdrift18.07599Tswana
Munsieville1.8119,837Tswana
Orient Hills0.231,083Tswana
Rietvallei2.8331,261Tswana
Remainder of the municipality847.9745,457Tswana

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 plurality of thirty-eight seats on the council but failed to win an overall majority by one seat. Council had to elect a Chief Whip, Speaker and an Executive Mayor. The Democratic Alliance subsequently formed a government with the support of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Freedom Front Plus, and the Inkatha Freedom Party. Councillor Lynn Pannall of the DA was elected as Executive Mayor. In a shocking turn of results, the position of Speaker and Chief Whip was awarded to the ANC. Councillor Sipho Dube was sworn in as Chief Whip and Patrick Naga Lipudi as Speaker. Councillor Lynn Pannall later resigned due to ill health and Councillor Michael Holenstein, also from the DA, was subsequently elected Mayor. The ANC later regained control of the municipality with Patrick Lipudi as its mayor. Lipudi died in January 2020 and Francis Makgatho was elected as his successor.
The following table shows the results of the election.