Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality

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Ramotshere Moiloa
Local municipality
SAST
)
Municipal codeNW385

Ramotshere Moiloa Municipality (

North West province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Zeerust
.

History

The municipality is named after Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa (1910-1982), a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s.

passbooks by Hurutshe women as obliged by apartheid law. The women of Dinokana had largely refused to carry the passbooks, and Kgosi Moiloa had supported their decision.[4][5]
At the first meeting held by the native commissioner, 1000 women gathered but only 70 passbooks were taken out, Kgosi Moiloa was deposed a week later. His banishment order was revoked on 1 January 1971. Today, in acknowledgment of his contributions to the struggle for democracy the local municipality bears his name.

Main places

The

main places:[6]

Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Gopane 61001 485.86 19,067 Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Le-Ncoe 61002 260.43 9,743 Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Moilwa 61003 920.24 48,517 Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mokgoswa 61004 99.47 1,474 Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mothogae 61005 31.64 123 Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Suping 61006 178.15 2,794 Tswana
Bahurutshe Bo Manyane 61007 155.26 5,205 Tswana
Banabakae 61008 43.01 8,555 Tswana
Ikageleng
 61009 1.36 6,562 Tswana
Leeufontein 61010 10.85 5,685 Tswana
Madikwe Part 1 61011 3.61 1,191 Tswana
Madikwe Part 2 61016 2.90 985 Tswana
Marico Nature Reserve 61012 18.76 352 Tswana
Mixed TA 61013 144.32 0 -
Welbedacht
 61014 5.81 5,993 Tswana
Zeerust 61017 11.02 6,393 Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality 61015 4,818.77 14,795 Tswana

Politics

Main article: Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by

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-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[7]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Independent candidates
3391.0600
7 other parties7422.3108492.6400
Total32,107100.001932,208100.001837
Valid votes32,10797.9132,20897.74
Invalid/blank votes6872.097462.26
Total votes32,794100.0032,954100.00
Registered voters/turnout68,42147.9368,42148.16

References

  1. ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  4. ISBN 978-0-86486-137-5
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  5. ^ Lissoni, Arianna (2013). "Chieftaincy and resistance politics in Lehurutshe during the apartheid era" (PDF). New Contree. 67: 57–82.
  6. ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  7. ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Ramotshere Moiloa". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

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