Mogale City Local Municipality
Mogale City | |
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 Seal | |
 Location in Gauteng | |
| Coordinates: 26°0′S 27°40′E / 26.000°S 27.667°ECoordinates: 26°0′S 27°40′E / 26.000°S 27.667°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| District | West Rand |
| Seat | Krugersdorp |
| Wards | 34 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Francis Makgatho (ANC) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,342 km2 (518 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[2] | |
| • Total | 362,422 |
| • Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 75.6% |
| • Coloured | 0.8% |
| • Indian/Asian | 2.2% |
| • White | 21.0% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Tswana | 31.7% |
| • Afrikaans | 17.2% |
| • Zulu | 11.2% |
| • English | 9.7% |
| • Other | 30.2% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Municipal code | GT481 |
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:[3]
| Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kagiso | 70101 | 21.12 | 100,940 | Tswana |
| Krugersdorp | 70102 | 195.99 | 86,614 | Afrikaans |
| Magaliesburg | 70103 | 7.43 | 2,512 | Tswana |
| Mogale City | 70109 | 0.61 | 1,411 | Tswana |
| Muldersdrift | 70105 | 18.07 | 599 | Tswana |
| Munsieville | 70106 | 1.81 | 19,837 | Tswana |
| 70107 | 0.23 | 1,083 | Tswana | |
| Rietvallei | 70108 | 2.83 | 31,261 | Tswana |
| Remainder of the municipality | 70104 | 847.97 | 45,457 | Tswana |
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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 (ANC) 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 (DA) subsequently formed a government with the support of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Freedom Front Plus (VF+), and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Councillor Lynn Pannall of the DA was elected as Executive Mayor.[4] 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.[5][6][7] The ANC later regained control of the municipality with Patrick Lipudi as its mayor.[8] Lipudi died in January 2020 and Francis Makgatho was elected as his successor.[9]
The following table shows the results of the election.[10][11]
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
| ANC | 58,071 | 57,956 | 116,027 | 48.8 | 28 | 10 | 38 | |
| Democratic Alliance | 41,472 | 41,383 | 82,855 | 34.9 | 11 | 16 | 27 | |
| EFF | 13,860 | 13,805 | 27,665 | 11.7 | 0 | 9 | 9 | |
| Freedom Front Plus | 2,766 | 2,663 | 5,429 | 2.3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| IFP | 804 | 881 | 1,685 | 0.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Others | 1,843 | 2,054 | 3,897 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 118,816 | 118,742 | 237,558 | 100.0 | 39 | 38 | 77 | |
| Spoilt votes | 1,393 | 1,420 | 2,813 | |||||
See also[]
- List of South African municipalities
References[]
- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ^ "PANNAL: EFF, DA HAVE SAME AIMS FOR MOGALE CITY". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
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- ^ [2]
- ^ "Mogale City council elects new mayor". Independent Online. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "ANC regains control of Mogale City". Polity. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ None, Sipho (3 March 2020). "Mogale City elects new mayor during special council meeting". Krugersdorp News. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Mogale City" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Mogale City" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
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