Greater Taung Local Municipality

Greater Taung
Local municipality
Seal
Location in the North West
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
Seat	Taung
Wards	26
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Tumisang R. Gaoraelwe
Area
• Total	5,635 km2 (2,176 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [2]
• Total	177,642
• Density	32/km2 (82/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
•  Black African	98.2%
•  Coloured	1.0%
•  Indian/Asian	0.2%
•  White	0.4%
First languages (2011) [2]
•  Tswana	90.3%
•  Xhosa	1.7%
•  Sotho	1.5%
•  English	1.5%
• Other	5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	NW394

Greater Taung Municipality (Tswana : Mmasepala wa Greater Taung) is a local municipality within the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Taung.

Main places

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

Place	Code	Area (km2)	Population	Most spoken language
Batlhaping Ba Ga Maidi	61401	483.38	26,424	Tswana
Batlhaping Ba Ga Mothibi	61402	811.50	30,810	Tswana
Batlhaping Ba Ga Phuduhutswana	61403	1,193.50	107,870	Tswana
Batlhaping Ba Ga Phudutswana	61404	2.76	3,337	Tswana
Boipelo	61405	3.81	3,568	Tswana
Motsweding	61407	9.55	3,255	Tswana
Pudimoe	61408	2.80	3,718	Tswana
Reivilo	61409	27.28	21	Tswana
Remainder of the municipality	61406	3,106.08	3,159	Tswana

Politics

Main article: Greater Taung Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of forty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-four wards, while the remaining twenty-four 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 twenty-eight seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. ^[4]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	23,392	56.42	23	23,528	58.03	5	28
	Economic Freedom Fighters	9,491	22.89	0	9,532	23.51	11	11
	Azanian Independent Community Movement	1,612	3.89	0	1,546	3.81	2	2
	Forum for Service Delivery	1,580	3.81	1	1,563	3.85	1	2
	Independent candidates	2,128	5.13	0				0
	Democratic Alliance	953	2.30	0	953	2.35	1	1
	African Independent Congress	265	0.64	0	846	2.09	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	395	0.95	0	380	0.94	1	1
	National Freedom Party	361	0.87	0	408	1.01	1	1
	Patriotic Alliance	335	0.81	0	375	0.92	1	1
	4 other parties	946	2.28	0	1,416	3.49	0	0
Total		41,458	100.00	24	40,547	100.00	24	48
Valid votes		41,458	97.63		40,547	96.04
Invalid/blank votes		1,005	2.37		1,671	3.96
Total votes		42,463	100.00		42,218	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		87,198	48.70		87,198	48.42

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
4. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Greater Taung". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

External links

• Official site

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