Mahikeng Local Municipality is a local municipality in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, Capital City of North West Province,

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. Mahikeng is a Setswana name meaning "place of rocks".

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-five councillors are elected by

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in thirty-five wards, while the remaining thirty-four are chosen from

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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

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(ANC) won a majority of forty seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

* http://www.mafikeng.gov.za/ Local municipalities of the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality {{NorthWestZA-geo-stub