City of Matlosana
The City of Matlosana is a local municipality in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Buffelsfontein | 0.24 | 1,825 | Sotho | |
| Dominionville | 6.24 | 542 | Afrikaans | |
| Faan Meintjies Nature Reserve | 8.86 | 18 | Xhosa | |
| GTC Village | 0.41 | 445 | Sotho | |
| Hartebeesfontein | 3.72 | 1,275 | Afrikaans | |
| Hartebeestfontein Mine | 60.65 | 4,350 | Sotho | |
| Jouberton | 15.74 | 104,977 | Tswana | |
| Kanana | 9.90 | 66,936 | Sotho | |
| Khayalihle | 0.09 | 1,501 | Xhosa | |
| Khuma | 7.08 | 42,963 | Tswana | |
| Klerksdorp | 115.17 | 59,509 | Afrikaans | |
| Margaret Mine | 56.23 | 0 | - | |
| Orkney | 137.70 | 15,539 | Afrikaans | |
| Paballong Village | 0.24 | 516 | Xhosa | |
| Stilfontein Gold Mine | 0.32 | 470 | Tswana | |
| Stilfontein | 7.63 | 14,713 | Afrikaans | |
| Tigane | 1.21 | 12,111 | Tswana | |
| Vaal Reefs | 6.15 | 11,345 | Xhosa | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 3,125.09 | 20,194 | Tswana |
Politics
The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine wards, while the remaining thirty-eight 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 forty-six seats in the council.The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 10 July 2019, a ward previously held by a DA councillor was won by the FF+ candidate. The council was reconfigured as seen below:
Languages
The 2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality:36.0% Setswana;
19.9% Sesotho;
17.3% Afrikaans;
14.0% IsiXhosa;
4.3% English;
2.1% IsiZulu;
1.2% Xitsonga...