The City of Matlosana (; ; ; ), formerly the City Council of Klerksdorp, is a
local municipality within the
Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality
The Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality (; ; ; ), formerly the Southern District Municipality, is one of the 4 districts of the North West province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Klerksdorp. As of 2016, a plurality of its 7 ...
, in the
North West province of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a type of representation provided by some mixed electoral system, mixed electoral systems which combine local Winner-take-all system, winner-take-all elections with a Compensation (el ...
. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...
in thirty-nine
wards, while the remaining thirty-eight are chosen from
party list
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...
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
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the 1994 South African general election, fir ...
(ANC) won a majority of forty seats in the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Languages
The
2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality:
36.0% Setswana;
19.9% Sesotho;
17.3% Afrikaans;
14.0% IsiXhosa;
4.3% English;
2.1% IsiZulu;
1.2% Xitsonga ...
References
External links
* http://www.matlosana.gov.za
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Local municipalities of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality