Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality
Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality is an administrative area in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District of the Northern Cape in South Africa.
Segonyana is the Setswana name of a spring, commonly known as Eye of Kuruman.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Place | Code | Area | Population |
Batlharo Ba Ga Motlhware | 459.53 | 37,270 | |
Ga Mohana | 2.83 | 3,674 | |
Gathlose | 498.52 | 116 | |
Kudumane | 198.06 | 14,033 | |
Kuruman Part 1 | 32.22 | 0 | |
Kuruman Part 2 | 93.61 | 9,824 | |
Mothibistad | 2.93 | 4,626 | |
Remainder of the municipality | 3,197.71 | 849 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of eighteen seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.