Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality

Ramotshere Moiloa
Local municipality
Seal
Location in the North West
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Ngaka Modiri Molema
Seat	Zeerust
Wards	20
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Moji Peter Pilane
Area
• Total	7,193 km^2 (2,777 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	150,713
• Density	21/km^2 (54/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	94.4%
• Coloured	0.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.7%
• White	3.8%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Tswana	86.0%
• Afrikaans	4.5%
• English	3.8%
• Xhosa	1.2%
• Other	4.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	NW385

Ramotshere Moiloa Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Ramotshere Moiloa), formerly Zeerust Municipality, 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 Zeerust.

History

The municipality is named after Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s.^[3] Kgosi Moiloa was banished by the Apartheid Government in 1957 after he refused to enforce the carrying of 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 His banishment order was revoked on 1 January 1971.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 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[6]

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	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 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 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]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	19,746	61.50	19	19,634	60.96	4	23
	Economic Freedom Fighters	4,485	13.97	0	4,721	14.66	6	6
	Forum for Service Delivery	4,222	13.15	0	4,264	13.24	5	5
	Freedom Front Plus	1,060	3.30	0	973	3.02	1	1
	Democratic Alliance	808	2.52	0	838	2.60	1	1
	United Christian Democratic Party	705	2.20	0	929	2.88	1	1
	Independent candidates	339	1.06	0				0
	7 other parties	742	2.31	0	849	2.64	0	0
Total		32,107	100.00	19	32,208	100.00	18	37
Valid votes		32,107	97.91		32,208	97.74
Invalid/blank votes		687	2.09		746	2.26
Total votes		32,794	100.00		32,954	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		68,421	47.93		68,421	48.16

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. "Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
4. Hooper (Canon.), Charles (1989). Brief Authority. David Philip. ISBN 978-0-86486-137-5.
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.

External links

• Official site

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