Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality
Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality is a local municipality in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The seat of local municipality is Zeerust.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Gopane | 485.86 | 19,067 | Tswana | |
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Le-Ncoe | 260.43 | 9,743 | Tswana | |
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Moilwa | 920.24 | 48,517 | Tswana | |
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mokgoswa | 99.47 | 1,474 | Tswana | |
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mothogae | 31.64 | 123 | Tswana | |
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Suping | 178.15 | 2,794 | Tswana | |
Bahurutshe Bo Manyane | 155.26 | 5,205 | Tswana | |
Banabakae | 43.01 | 8,555 | Tswana | |
Ikageleng | 1.36 | 6,562 | Tswana | |
Leeufontein | 10.85 | 5,685 | Tswana | |
Madikwe Part 1 | 3.61 | 1,191 | Tswana | |
Madikwe Part 2 | 2.90 | 985 | Tswana | |
Marico Nature Reserve | 18.76 | 352 | Tswana | |
Mixed TA | 144.32 | 0 | - | |
Welbedacht | 5.81 | 5,993 | Tswana | |
Zeerust | 11.02 | 6,393 | Afrikaans | |
Remainder of the municipality | 4,818.77 | 14,795 | Tswana |
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of twenty-three seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.