Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality is an administrative area in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District of the Northern Cape in

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. Segonyana is the

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name of a spring, commonly known as

Eye of Kuruman The Eye of Kuruman ( af, Die Oog) is a spring in the town of Kuruman (part of the Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality) in the province of Northern Cape, South Africa. Currently, it is known as the largest natural spring in the Southern Hemisphere. a ...

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by

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in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen 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

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(ANC) won a majority of seventeen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
{{Municipalities of the Northern Cape Local municipalities of the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality