Mogalakwena Local Municipality
Mogalakwena Municipality is a local municipality within the Waterberg District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It's named after the mogalakwena river which comes from the babina Kwena fierce Nile crocodile. The seat is Mokopane. The area constitute of a cosmopolitan of different chiefdoms: mainly Bakone, Lebelo kgomo, Transvaal Ndebele Langa & Kekana, phokela, Lekalekale, babirwa.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Babirwa | 5.17 | 3,328 | Northern Sotho | |
| Bakenberg Langa | 1,223.97 | 101,580 | Northern Sotho | |
| Bakoni Manetji | 581.60 | 27,375 | Northern Sotho | |
| Ba-Mokopane | 130.49 | 44,026 | Northern Sotho | |
| Batlokwa | 96.64 | 8,190 | Northern Sotho | |
| Lekalakala Part 1 | 9.24 | 20,394 | Northern Sotho | |
| Lekalakala Part 2 | 2.50 | 1,305 | Northern Sotho | |
| Mahwelereng | 10.12 | 32,819 | Northern Sotho | |
| Matlala Dichoeneng | 2.34 | 3,265 | Northern Sotho | |
| Matlala | 2.48 | 535 | Northern Sotho | |
| Mokerong | 23.93 | 45 | Northern Sotho | |
| Nkiditlana | 1.30 | 1,202 | Northern Sotho | |
| Potgietersrus(Ga Mokopane) | 65.97 | 19,391 | Afrikaans | |
| Rebone | 2.60 | 2,579 | Northern Sotho | |
| Sekgakgapeng | 4.00 | 12,113 | Northern Sotho | |
| Tsebishi | 0.92 | 1,838 | Northern Sotho | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 4,021.12 | 18,464 | Northern Sotho |
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-two 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 forty-two seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.