Mogale City Local Municipality

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Mogale City
Local municipality
Mogale City CoA.png
Seal
Map of Gauteng with Mogale City highlighted.svg
Location in Gauteng
Coordinates: 26°0′S27°40′E / 26.000°S 27.667°E / -26.000; 27.667
Country South Africa
Province Gauteng
District West Rand
Seat Krugersdorp
Wards 34
Government
[1]
 • Type Municipal council
Area
 • Total1,342 km2 (518 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total362,422
 • Density270/km2 (700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 •  Black African 75.6%
 •  Coloured 0.8%
 •  Indian/Asian 2.2%
 •  White 21.0%
First languages (2011)
[2]
 •  Tswana 31.7%
 •  Afrikaans 17.2%
 •  Zulu 11.2%
 •  English 9.7%
 • Other30.2%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeGT481

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.

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Main places

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

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Kagiso 70101 21.12100,940 Tswana
Krugersdorp 70102 195.9986,614 Afrikaans
Magaliesburg 70103 7.432,512Tswana
Mogale City 70109 0.611,411Tswana
Muldersdrift 70105 18.07599Tswana
Munsieville 70106 1.8119,837Tswana
Orient Hills 70107 0.231,083Tswana
Rietvallei 70108 2.8331,261Tswana
Remainder of the municipality 70104 847.9745,457Tswana

Politics

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
PartyVotesSeats
WardListTotal %WardListTotal
African National Congress 36,37035,57071,94040.2%27431
Democratic Alliance 28,79828,98357,78132.3%121325
Economic Freedom Fighters 12,47712,39624,87313.9%01111
Freedom Front Plus 7,0996,83513,9347.8%066
Inkatha Freedom Party 1,4769712,4471.4%011
African Christian Democratic Party 8769311,8071.0%011
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania 6626411,3030.7%011
African Transformation Movement 5185231,0410.6%011
Independent candidates 379–3790.2%0–0
12 other parties1,3772,2063,5832.0%000
Total90,03289,056179,088393877
Valid votes90,03289,056179,08898.2%
Spoilt votes 1,4461,7473,1931.8%
Total votes cast91,47890,803182,281
Voter turnout91,915
Registered voters188,367
Turnout percentage48.8%

Management

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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References

  1. ↑ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  4. ↑ "DA bags another Gauteng municipality, this time the Mogale City local municipality". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Mogale City". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  6. ↑ Khumalo, Sibongile (2 September 2021). "Eskom wins judgment against Emfuleni municipality over R1.3 billion debt". news24.com. fin24. Retrieved 6 September 2021.