Mogale City Local Municipality


Mogale City Local Municipality is a local municipality within the West Rand District Municipality, in the Gauteng province of South Africa.

Main places

The South [African National Census of 2001|2001 census] divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Kagiso21.12100,940Tswana
Krugersdorp195.9986,614Afrikaans
Magaliesburg7.432,512Tswana
Mogale City0.611,411Tswana
Muldersdrift18.07599Tswana
Munsieville1.8119,837Tswana
Orient Hills0.231,083Tswana
Rietvallei2.8331,261Tswana
Remainder of the municipality847.9745,457Tswana

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine wards, while the remaining thirty-eight 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 plurality of thirty-one seats on the council but failed to win an overall majority by eight seats. At the first council meeting on 23 November 2021, the DA's Tyrone Gray was elected mayor and the DA's Jacqueline Pannall was elected speaker.
The following table shows the results of the election.

Management

As of 2021 the municipality's debt with Eskom was in excess of R361 million, but it was honoring its payments in terms of their signed agreement.