Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality


Ga-Segonyana Municipality is a Local [municipality (South Africa)|local municipality] within the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Segonyana is the Setswana name of a spring, commonly known as Eye of Kuruman.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Batlharo Ba Ga Motlhware459.5337,270
Ga Mohana2.833,674
Gathlose498.52116
Kudumane198.0614,033
Kuruman Part 132.220
Kuruman Part 293.619,824
Mothibistad2.934,626
Remainder of the municipality3,197.71849

Demographics

According to the 2022 South African census, the municipality had a population of 117,454 people. Of these, 5.2% identified as "Coloured," 92.3% as "Black African," and 2.1% as "White."

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member [proportional representation]. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the 2021 South African [municipal elections|election of 1 November 2021] the African National Congress won a majority of seventeen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.