JB Marks Local Municipality is a
local municipality of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...
. It was established after the
August 2016 local elections by the merging of
Tlokwe Local Municipality
Tlokwe Local Municipality (before February 2007, Potchefstroom Local Municipality) was a local municipality in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The seat was Potchefstroom. After the municipal election ...
(which included
Potchefstroom) and
Ventersdorp Local Municipality
Ventersdorp Local Municipality was a local municipality in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The seat of local municipality was Ventersdorp. After the municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged in ...
.
The municipality was renamed after
JB Marks in 2017, following the creation of the new municipality the year before. Other name proposals included
Josie Mpama
Josie Mpama (21 March 1903 – 3 December 1979), born Josephine Palmer, was a South African anti-apartheid and labor activist.
A forceful campaigner against racial segregation and for labor and women's rights, she is considered the first black wo ...
. Marks was born in Ventersdorp while Mpama was born in Potchefstroom.
Politics
The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four 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 their ...
in thirty-four
wards, while the remaining thirty-three 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) lost their majority on the municipal council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Languages
The
2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages for the combined municipalities of Tlokwe and Ventersdorp:
67.1% Setswana;
17.4% Afrikaans;
4.2% English;
1.4% IsiZulu;
1.3% Sesotho;
1.0% IsiXhosa;
0.8% IsiNdebele ...
References
External links
Official Website
{{Coord missing, South Africa
Local municipalities of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality