The City of Matlosana (formerly City Council of Klerksdorp) is a
local municipality in
Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality
Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality (formerly Southern District Municipality) is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Kaunda District is Klerksdorp. A plurality of its 742 821 people speak Setswana (2016 ...
,
North West Province
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mahikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng and south of Botswana.
History
North West was incorporated after the end of Apartheid in 1994, an ...
,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
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 a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
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
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) won a majority of forty seats in the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Languages
The
2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality:
36.0% Setswana;
19.9% Sesotho;
17.3% Afrikaans;
14.0% IsiXhosa;
4.3% English;
2.1% IsiZulu;
1.2% Xitsonga ...
References
External links
* http://www.matlosana.gov.za
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Local municipalities of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality