Ditsobotla Local Municipality


Ditsobotla Local Municipality is a local municipality in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The seat of local municipality is Lichtenburg.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Bakwena Ba Ga Serobatse2.371,392Tswana
Banogeng0.72502Tswana
Boikhutso2.2216,914Tswana
Coligny3.502,271Afrikaans
Ga-Raphalane26.3424,104Tswana
Itekeng0.352,591Tswana
Itsoseng7.6222,879Tswana
Kopano6.788,325Tswana
Lichtenburg87.1311,927Afrikaans
Mosiane1.731,056Tswana
Tlhabologang0.635,852Tswana
Remainder of the municipality6,325.4945,059Tswana

Politics

The municipal council consists of forty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining twenty 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-five seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 25 April 2018, a ward previously held by an ANC councillor was won by the EFF candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: