Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality (formerly Zeerust Local Municipality) is a
local municipality in the
Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality,
North West Province,
South Africa. The seat of local municipality is
Zeerust.
History
The municipality is named after Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s. Kgosi Moiloa was banished by the
Apartheid Government in 1957 after he refused to enforce the carrying of
passbooks by Hurutshe women as obliged by apartheid law. The women of
Dinokana had largely refused to carry the passbooks, and Kgosi Moiloa had supported their decision. At the first meeting held by the native commissioner, 1000 women gathered but only 70 passbooks were taken out, Kgosi Moiloa was deposed a week later. His banishment order was revoked on 1 January 1971. Today, in acknowledgment of his contributions to the struggle for democracy the local municipality bears his name.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...
. Nineteen councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in nineteen
wards
Ward may refer to:
Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
, while the remaining nineteen are chosen from
party list
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s 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-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
Official site
Local municipalities of the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality
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