Country South Africa Seat Mothibistad Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 20,172 km² Black african population 96.4% Native english speakers 1.9% | Province Northern Cape Wards 15 Municipal code NC451 White population 1.2% Native afrikaans speakers 3.6% Native tswana speakers 90.7% | |
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District John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality | ||
Joe Morolong Local Municipality (formerly Moshaweng Local Municipality) is an administrative area in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District of the Northern Cape in South Africa.
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Map of Kgalagadi, South Africa
Moshaweng is a Setswana name for "place of sand".
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
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 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of twenty-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.