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:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Babirwa5.173,328Northern Sotho
Bakenberg Langa1,223.97101,580Northern Sotho
Bakoni Manetji581.6027,375Northern Sotho
Ba-Mokopane130.4944,026Northern Sotho
Batlokwa96.648,190Northern Sotho
Lekalakala Part 19.2420,394Northern Sotho
Lekalakala Part 22.501,305Northern Sotho
Mahwelereng10.1232,819Northern Sotho
Matlala Dichoeneng2.343,265Northern Sotho
Matlala2.48535Northern Sotho
Mokerong23.9345Northern Sotho
Nkiditlana1.301,202Northern Sotho
Potgietersrus(Ga Mokopane)65.9719,391Afrikaans
Rebone2.602,579Northern Sotho
Sekgakgapeng4.0012,113Northern Sotho
Tsebishi0.921,838Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality4,021.1218,464Northern 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.