Ditsobotla Local Municipality

Ditsobotla Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Ditsobotla) is a local municipality within the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Lichtenburg.

Ditsobotla
Local municipality
Official seal of Ditsobotla
Seal
Location in the North West
Location in the North West
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceNorth West
DistrictNgaka Modiri Molema
SeatLichtenburg
Wards21
Government
[1]
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorTsholofelo Moreo
Area
 • Total6,465 km2 (2,496 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total168,902
 • Density26/km2 (68/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 • Black African89.1%
 • Coloured1.9%
 • Indian/Asian0.6%
 • White8.2%
First languages (2011)
[2]
 • Tswana78.6%
 • Afrikaans9.8%
 • Xhosa3.0%
 • English2.4%
 • Other6.2%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeNW384

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[3]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Bakwena Ba Ga Serobatse609012.371,392Tswana
Banogeng609020.72502Tswana
Boikhutso609032.2216,914Tswana
Coligny609043.502,271Afrikaans
Ga-Raphalane6090626.3424,104Tswana
Itekeng609070.352,591Tswana
Itsoseng609087.6222,879Tswana
Kopano609096.788,325Tswana
Lichtenburg6091087.1311,927Afrikaans
Mosiane609111.731,056Tswana
Tlhabologang609120.635,852Tswana
Remainder of the municipality609056,325.4945,059Tswana

Politics
Main article: Ditsobotla Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of thirty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 (ANC) won a majority of twenty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[4]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
African National Congress15,00550.001715,62553.19421
Economic Freedom Fighters4,19513.9804,83816.4766
Democratic Alliance4,27614.2534,29114.6136
Independent candidates3,08210.2700
Freedom Front Plus1,2264.0901,3054.4422
Forum for Service Delivery1,0823.6101,1093.7822
African Christian Democratic Party4011.3404421.5011
African Independent Congress7702.6211
7 other parties7402.4709943.3800
Total30,007100.002029,374100.001939
Valid votes30,00797.0329,37495.10
Invalid/blank votes9182.971,5154.90
Total votes30,925100.0030,889100.00
Registered voters/turnout69,42144.5569,42144.50

After infighting between two African National Congress factions, resulting in the council having two mayors and two speakers, the council was dissolved by the national and provincial governments. A by-election to elect an entirely new council will be held in December 2022.[5]

References
  1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  4. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Ditsobotla". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  5. Importer, Pongrass (30 November 2022). "Parties aim to take power from ANC in by-elections amid disagreements". The Citizen. Retrieved 3 December 2022.

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