Ramotshere Moiloa
Local municipality
Official seal of Ramotshere Moiloa
Seal
Location in the North West
Location in the North West
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceNorth West
DistrictNgaka Modiri Molema
SeatZeerust
Wards20
Government
[1]
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorMoji Peter Pilane
Area
 • Total7,193 km2 (2,777 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total150,713
 • Density21/km2 (54/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 • Black African94.4%
 • Coloured0.9%
 • Indian/Asian0.7%
 • White3.8%
First languages (2011)
[2]
 • Tswana86.0%
 • Afrikaans4.5%
 • English3.8%
 • Xhosa1.2%
 • Other4.5%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeNW385

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 His banishment order was revoked on 1 January 1971.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]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Gopane61001485.8619,067Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Le-Ncoe61002260.439,743Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Moilwa61003920.2448,517Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mokgoswa6100499.471,474Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mothogae6100531.64123Tswana
Bahurutshe Ba Ga Suping61006178.152,794Tswana
Bahurutshe Bo Manyane61007155.265,205Tswana
Banabakae6100843.018,555Tswana
Ikageleng610091.366,562Tswana
Leeufontein6101010.855,685Tswana
Madikwe Part 1610113.611,191Tswana
Madikwe Part 2610162.90985Tswana
Marico Nature Reserve6101218.76352Tswana
Mixed TA61013144.320-
Welbedacht610145.815,993Tswana
Zeerust6101711.026,393Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality610154,818.7714,795Tswana

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 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
African National Congress19,74661.501919,63460.96423
Economic Freedom Fighters4,48513.9704,72114.6666
Forum for Service Delivery4,22213.1504,26413.2455
Freedom Front Plus1,0603.3009733.0211
Democratic Alliance8082.5208382.6011
United Christian Democratic Party7052.2009292.8811
Independent candidates3391.0600
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. 1 2 3 "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.

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