Ratlou Local Municipality

Ratlou
Ratlou
Local municipality
	Seal
	Location in the North West
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Ngaka Modiri Molema
Seat	Setlagole
Wards	14
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Francisco Ntwe
Area
• Total	4,884 km2 (1,886 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	107,339
• Density	22/km2 (57/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	98.2%
• Coloured	0.7%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• White	0.7%
First languages (2011)
• Tswana	87.9%
• Sotho	3.7%
• English	2.0%
• Xhosa	1.9%
• Other	4.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	NW381

Ratlou Local Municipality (formerly Setla-Kgobi Local Municipality) is a local municipality in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa.

Main places[]

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[4]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population	Most spoken language
	60601	309.22	2,141	Tswana
	60602	266.70	12,725	Tswana
	60603	56.33	42	Tswana
	60604	650.27	71,190	Tswana
	60605	952.26	15,825	Tswana
Remainder of the municipality	60606	2,303.38	2,404	Tswana

Politics[]

The municipal council consists of twenty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining fourteen 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of nineteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.^[5]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	13,443	68.00	14	13,338	67.65	5	19
	Economic Freedom Fighters	2,421	12.25	0	2,519	12.78	3	3
	Forum for Service Delivery	1,913	9.68	0	1,870	9.48	3	3
	Democratic Alliance	819	4.14	0	791	4.01	1	1
	United Christian Democratic Party	431	2.18	0	533	2.70	1	1
	Independent candidates	289	1.46	0				0
	3 other parties	454	2.30	0	665	3.37	0	0
Total		19,770	100.00	14	19,716	100.00	13	27

Valid votes		19,770	97.44		19,716	97.16
Invalid/blank votes		520	2.56		577	2.84
Total votes		20,290	100.00		20,293	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		47,187	43.00		47,187	43.01

References[]

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Ratlou". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-04.