Kgatelopele Local Municipality


Kgatelopele Local Municipality is a local municipality in the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality of the Northern Cape in South Africa. Kgatelopele is a Setswana name that means "progress".

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Danielskuil22.126,730
Five Mission1.70350
Lime Acres755.533,723
Tlhakalatlou0.473,337
Remainder of the municipality2,870.451,305

Politics

The municipal council consists of seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in four wards, while the remaining three 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 no party obtained a majority on the council; the Democratic Alliance and the Kgatelopele Community Forum formed a coalition to govern the municipality.
The following table shows the results of the election.