The City of Matlosana (formerly City Council of Klerksdorp) is a
local municipality in
Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality,
North West Province,
South Africa.
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 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 ...
. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine
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 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 ...
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 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