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:Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
Bakwena Ba Ga Serobatse | 2.37 | 1,392 | Tswana | |
Banogeng | 0.72 | 502 | Tswana | |
Boikhutso | 2.22 | 16,914 | Tswana | |
Coligny | 3.50 | 2,271 | Afrikaans | |
Ga-Raphalane | 26.34 | 24,104 | Tswana | |
Itekeng | 0.35 | 2,591 | Tswana | |
Itsoseng | 7.62 | 22,879 | Tswana | |
Kopano | 6.78 | 8,325 | Tswana | |
Lichtenburg | 87.13 | 11,927 | Afrikaans | |
Mosiane | 1.73 | 1,056 | Tswana | |
Tlhabologang | 0.63 | 5,852 | Tswana | |
Remainder of the municipality | 6,325.49 | 45,059 | Tswana |
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: