Joe Morolong Local Municipality
Joe Morolong Local Municipality is an administrative area in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District of the Northern Cape in South Africa.
Moshaweng is a Setswana name for "place of sand".
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Batlhaping Ba Ga Jantjie | 0.73 | 48 | Tswana | |
| Batlhaping Ba Ga Sehunelo | 737.16 | 3,305 | Tswana | |
| Batlharo Ba Ga Motlhware | 2,647.09 | 27,063 | Tswana | |
| Batlharo Ba Ga Phadima | 451.26 | 6,531 | Tswana | |
| Batlharo Ba Lotlhware | 169.22 | 1,050 | Tswana | |
| Blackrock | 17.11 | 1,002 | Afrikaans | |
| Hotazel | 29.92 | 1,232 | Tswana | |
| Kalahari | 10,651.43 | 3,166 | Tswana | |
| Kudumane | 2,024.22 | 46,111 | Tswana | |
| Van Zylsrus | 0.90 | 848 | Tswana |
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen 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-one seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.