Matlosana_Local_Municipality

City of Matlosana

City of Matlosana

Local municipality in North West, South Africa

The City of Matlosana (Tswana: Toropo ya Matlosana; Sotho: Toropo ya Matlosana; Afrikaans: Stad Matlosana; Xhosa: IsiXeko saseMatlosana), formerly the City Council of Klerksdorp, is a local municipality within the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa.

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Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[3]

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Politics

Main article: City of Matlosana Local Municipality elections

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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty seats in the council.[4] The following table shows the results of the election.

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Languages

The 2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality: 36.0% Setswana; 19.9% Sesotho; 17.3% Afrikaans; 14.0% IsiXhosa; 4.3% English; 2.1% IsiZulu; 1.2% Xitsonga ...[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
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    Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa[permanent dead link]
  4. [4]
    "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — City of Matlosana". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  5. [5]
    "Local Municipality | Statistics South Africa".
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