Country South Africa Seat Hartswater Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 834 km² Black african population 81.9% Native english speakers 3.9% Province Northern Cape | District Frances Baard Wards 9 Municipal code NC094 White population 6.3% Native afrikaans speakers 18.9% Native tswana speakers 66.6% | |
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Phokwane Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Frances Baard District of the Northern Cape in South Africa. The name means "lamb" in Setswana.
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Map of Hartswater, South Africa
Main places
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of eighteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining nine 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 thirteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
Phokwane Local Municipality Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA