Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality


Ephraim Mogale Municipality, known until 28 January 2010 as the Greater Marble Hall Municipality, is a local municipality within the Sekhukhune District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Marble Hall.
The municipality is named after Ephraim Phumuga Mogale, a South African freedom fighter.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Elandskraal2.345,590Northern Sotho
Marble Hall7.762,780Afrikaans
Matlala678.0835,108Northern Sotho
Mokerong61.020-
Moutse 1167.5136,941Northern Sotho
Nebo0.251,185Northern Sotho
Mokopane2.621,405Northern Sotho
Rahlangane Part 161.6518,695Northern Sotho
Rahlangane Part 21.5839Northern Sotho
Van der Merwe's Kraal2.054,877Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality807.0014,686Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Sixteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in sixteen wards, while the remaining sixteen 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 won a majority of nineteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.

Sports

Local sports teams in Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality include FC Maginim Ephraim Mogale, a football club.