Mogale City | |
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Coordinates: 26°0′S27°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 | 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 |
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.
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: [3]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
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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 | ||||||||
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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]
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The Mogale City Local Municipality 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.