Phokwane Municipality ( tn, Mmasepala wa Phokwane; af, Phokwane Munisipaliteit) is a
local municipality within the
Frances Baard District Municipality
Frances Baard (previously Diamantveld) is one of the 5 districts of Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Frances Baard is Kimberley. The majority of its 324 814 people speak Setswana (2001 Census). The district code is DC9.
Previ ...
, in the
Northern Cape province of
South Africa
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. The name means "small Billy goat" in
Setswana
Tswana, also known by its native name , and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa by about 8.2 million people. It belongs to the Bantu language family within the Sotho-Tswana branch of Zon ...
.
Main places
The
2011 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of nineteen members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Ten 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 ten
wards, while the remaining nine 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 ten 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 Frances Baard District Municipality