Moses Kotane Local Municipality

Moses Kotane Municipality is a local municipality within the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, in the North [West Province (South Africa)|North West] province of South Africa. It is named in memory of Moses Kotane. The seat of the municipality is Mogwase.

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
Amahlubi		563.29	3,646	Xhosa
Bafokeng		138.54	4,305	Tswana
Bakgatla Ba Ga Kgafela		1,166.89	75,072	Tswana
Bakubung Ba Ratheo		203.24	19,800	Tswana
Bakwena Ba Mare A Phogole		72.95	3,314	Tswana
Bakwena Boo Modimosana		235.27	14,364	Tswana
Baphalane		656.08	22,101	Tswana
Baphiring		152.35	8,887	Tswana
Bapo 2 Ba Ga Mogale		5.08	4,415	Tswana
BAPO 2		0.82	1,643	Tswana
Barokologadi Ba Ga Maotwa		289.33	7,100	Tswana
Bataung Ba Moubane		1.52	529	Tswana
Batlhako Boo Mututu Ba Ga Mabe		305.38	15,526	Tswana
Batlhalerwa		641.83	9,224	Tswana
Batlokwa Ba Bogatsu		212.95	16,518	Tswana
Batlokwa Ba Ga Sedumedi		17.76	7,044	Tswana
Batlokwa Boo Matlapane		70.26	1,444	Tswana
Dinokaneng		128.10	48	Tswana
Mahobieskraal		0.64	0	-
Makuntlwane A Kgote		4.70	1,689	Tswana
Mixed TA		63.00	0	-
Mogwase		15.76	9,342	Tswana
Mokgatlha		4.95	4,252	Tswana
Mokgautsi		2.18	2,271	Tswana
Molorwe		2.43	2,232	Tswana
Sun City		64.28	2,590	English
Zwartklip		3.54	1,413	Xhosa
Remainder of the municipality		194.14	337	Tswana

The municipal council consists of sixty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-five councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-five wards, while the remaining thirty-four 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] the African National Congress won a majority of forty-six seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.

J M Ntsime High School is situated in Zone 4 Mogwase, Moses Kotane Local Municipality, on the outskirts of Rustenburg, South Africa. The school was established in 1989 from Nkakane High School which used to share premises with Mogwase Middle School. It is named after a famous Setswana novelist, dramatist and former minister of education of the Bophuthatswana homeland government, J M Ntsime, to acknowledge his contribution to preserve the language and culture. The school has a student body of over 800, and staff including 40 teachers.