Madibeng Local Municipality


Madibeng Municipality is a local municipality within the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Brits. The popular tourist area of Hartbeespoort is also located in the municipality.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Bafokeng7.3617,380Tswana
Bakgatla Ba Mmakau214.9758,055Tswana
Bakwena Ba Magopa95.4333,566Tswana
Bakwena Boo Modimosana Ba Ga Makau387.2615,613Tswana
Bapo Ba Ga Mogale20.5337,311Tswana
Borakalalo Nature Reserve73.8548Tswana
Brits24.8012,383Afrikaans
Damonsville0.591,680Afrikaans
Elandsdrift0.08255Xhosa
Ga-Rankuwa508.0237,533Tswana
Hartbeespoort Dam Nature Reserve23.9942Afrikaans
Hartebeesfontein New Paradise1.3393Afrikaans
Hartebeespoort13.276,329Afrikaans
Jonathan26.87625Zulu
Letlhabile10.3835,606Tswana
Magaliesberg Nature Reserve20.80329Afrikaans
Maroelakop0.472,523Xhosa
Mooinooi3.153,894Afrikaans
Oskraal15.74934Tswana
Oukasie3.7319,627Tswana
Pelindaba20.23156Afrikaans
Sechaba-Sa-Ba-Taung27.5312,306Sotho
Sonop3.041,946Afrikaans
Western Platinum Mines0.795,090Xhosa
Remainder of the municipality2,310.1634,936Tswana

Politics

The municipal council consists of eighty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Forty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in forty-one wards, while the remaining forty-one 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 forty-four seats on the council, giving it an absolute majority.
The following table shows the results of the election.

Corruption

The municipality has been plagued by corruption, and has spent over R7 million on forensic investigations. In spite of senior officials being identified, no action has been taken. Irregular expenditure was up to R2.6 billion in the 2020/21 financial year.
As of 2024, the municipality owed Eskom and the City of Tshwane millions, while much of the community went without working roads, water, sanitation, electricity, housing and sewerage.