Mogale City Local Municipality

Mogale City Local Municipality is a local municipality in West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, in South Africa.

Mogale City
Local municipality
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Location in Gauteng
Coordinates: 26°0′S 27°40′E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
District	West Rand
Seat	Krugersdorp
Wards	34
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Francis Makgatho (ANC)
Area
• Total	1,342 km^2 (518 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	362,422
• Density	270/km^2 (700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	75.6%
• Coloured	0.8%
• Indian/Asian	2.2%
• White	21.0%
First languages (2011) [3]
• Tswana	31.7%
• Afrikaans	17.2%
• Zulu	11.2%
• English	9.7%
• Other	30.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	GT481

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	Population	Most spoken language
Kagiso	70101	21.12	100,940	Tswana
Krugersdorp	70102	195.99	86,614	Afrikaans
Magaliesburg	70103	7.43	2,512	Tswana
Mogale City	70109	0.61	1,411	Tswana
Muldersdrift	70105	18.07	599	Tswana
Munsieville	70106	1.81	19,837	Tswana
Orient Hills	70107	0.23	1,083	Tswana
Rietvallei	70108	2.83	31,261	Tswana
Remainder of the municipality	70104	847.97	45,457	Tswana

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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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a plurality of thirty-eight seats on the council but failed to win an overall majority by one seat. Council had to elect a Chief Whip, Speaker and an Executive Mayor. The Democratic Alliance (DA) subsequently formed a government with the support of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Freedom Front Plus (VF+), and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Councillor Lynn Pannall of the DA was elected as Executive Mayor.[5] In a shocking turn of results, the position of Speaker and Chief Whip was awarded to the ANC. Councillor Sipho Dube was sworn in as Chief Whip and Patrick Naga Lipudi as Speaker. Councillor Lynn Pannall later resigned due to ill health and Councillor Michael Holenstein, also from the DA, was subsequently elected Mayor.[6][7][8] The ANC later regained control of the municipality with Patrick Lipudi as its mayor.[9] Lipudi died in January 2020 and Francis Makgatho was elected as his successor.[10]

The following table shows the results of the election.[11][12]

Party		Votes				Seats
		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	58,071	57,956	116,027	48.8	28	10	38
	Democratic Alliance	41,472	41,383	82,855	34.9	11	16	27
	Economic Freedom Fighters	13,860	13,805	27,665	11.7	0	9	9
	Freedom Front Plus	2,766	2,663	5,429	2.3	0	2	2
	Inkatha Freedom Party	804	881	1,685	0.7	0	1	1
	Others	1,843	2,054	3,897	0.5	0	0	0
Total		118,816	118,742	237,558	100.0	39	38	77
Spoilt votes		1,393	1,420	2,813

See also

• List of South African municipalities

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
5. "PANNAL: EFF, DA HAVE SAME AIMS FOR MOGALE CITY". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
8. "Mogale City council elects new mayor". Independent Online. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
9. "ANC regains control of Mogale City". Polity. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
10. None, Sipho (3 March 2020). "Mogale City elects new mayor during special council meeting". Krugersdorp News. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
11. "Results Summary – All Ballots: Mogale City" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
12. "Seat Calculation Detail: Mogale City" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.

External links

• Official website