Joe Morolong Local Municipality
Joe Morolong Municipality, formerly Moshaweng Municipality, is a Local [municipality (South Africa)|local municipality] within the John Taolo Gaetsewe [District Municipality], in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Moshaweng is a Setswana name for "place of sand".
Main places
The South [African National Census of 2001|2001 census] divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Batlhaping Ba Ga Jantjie | 0.73 | 48 | Tswana | |
| Batlhaping Ba Ga Sehunelo | 737.16 | 3,305 | Tswana | |
| Batlharo Ba Ga Motlhware | 2,647.09 | 27,063 | Tswana | |
| Batlharo Ba Ga Phadima | 451.26 | 6,531 | Tswana | |
| Batlharo Ba Lotlhware | 169.22 | 1,050 | Tswana | |
| Blackrock, [Northern Cape|Blackrock] | 17.11 | 1,002 | Afrikaans | |
| Hotazel | 29.92 | 1,232 | Tswana | |
| Kalahari | 10,651.43 | 3,166 | Tswana | |
| Kudumane | 2,024.22 | 46,111 | Tswana | |
| Van Zylsrus | 0.90 | 848 | Tswana |
Demographics
According to the 2022 [South African census], the municipality had a population of 125,420 people. Of those, 97.5% identified as "Black African," 1.4% as "Coloured," and 0.6% 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 election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress won a majority of eighteen seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.