Ratlou Municipality (), formerly Setla-Kgobi Municipality, is a local municipality within the

Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality The Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality (), formerly the Central District Municipality, is one of the four districts of the North West province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng, which is also the capital of the province. It was nam ...

, in the North West province of

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Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-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 ...

. Fourteen 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 fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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

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

Corruption

In October 2023, a report unveiled numerous incidents of corruption in the municipality, with the municipality accused of having paid millions of rands for the installation of dysfunctional water tanks, over R4 million for the construction of two roads which were never built, and over R3 million for a stadium that was never built.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130521205531/http://ratlou.gov.za/ Local municipalities of the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality {{NorthWestZA-geo-stub