Mogale_City
Mogale City Local Municipality
Local municipality in Gauteng, South Africa
Mogale City Local Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Mogale City; Afrikaans: Mogale City Munisipaliteit; Zulu: UMasipala wase Mogale City) is a local municipality within the West Rand District Municipality, in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
Mogale City | |
|---|---|
Location in Gauteng | |
| Coordinates: 26°0′S 27°40′E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| District | West Rand |
| Seat | Krugersdorp |
| Wards | 34 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Danny Thupane (Africa Transformation Movement) |
| 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 |
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 |
| Orient Hills | 70107 | 0.23 | 1,083 | Tswana |
| Rietvallei | 70108 | 2.83 | 31,261 | Tswana |
| Remainder of the municipality | 70104 | 847.97 | 45,457 | Tswana |
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 plurality of thirty-one seats on the council but failed to win an overall majority by eight seats. At the first council meeting on 23 November 2021, the DA's Tyrone Gray was elected mayor and the DA's Jacqueline Pannall was elected speaker.[4]
The following table shows the results of the election.[5]
| Mogale City local election, 1 November 2021 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
| Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
| African National Congress | 36,370 | 35,570 | 71,940 | 40.2% | 27 | 4 | 31 | |
| Democratic Alliance | 28,798 | 28,983 | 57,781 | 32.3% | 12 | 13 | 25 | |
| Economic Freedom Fighters | 12,477 | 12,396 | 24,873 | 13.9% | 0 | 11 | 11 | |
| Freedom Front Plus | 7,099 | 6,835 | 13,934 | 7.8% | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
| Inkatha Freedom Party | 1,476 | 971 | 2,447 | 1.4% | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 876 | 931 | 1,807 | 1.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Pan Africanist Congress of Azania | 662 | 641 | 1,303 | 0.7% | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| African Transformation Movement | 518 | 523 | 1,041 | 0.6% | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Independent candidates | 379 | – | 379 | 0.2% | 0 | – | 0 | |
| 12 other parties | 1,377 | 2,206 | 3,583 | 2.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 90,032 | 89,056 | 179,088 | 39 | 38 | 77 | ||
| Valid votes | 90,032 | 89,056 | 179,088 | 98.2% | ||||
| Spoilt votes | 1,446 | 1,747 | 3,193 | 1.8% | ||||
| Total votes cast | 91,478 | 90,803 | 182,281 | |||||
| Voter turnout | 91,915 | |||||||
| Registered voters | 188,367 | |||||||
| Turnout percentage | 48.8% | |||||||
As of 2021 the municipality's debt with Eskom was in excess of R361 million, but it was honoring its payments in terms of their signed agreement.[6]
- "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- "DA bags another Gauteng municipality, this time the Mogale City local municipality". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Mogale City". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- Khumalo, Sibongile (2 September 2021). "Eskom wins judgment against Emfuleni municipality over R1.3 billion debt". news24.com. fin24. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
