# Mogalakwena Local Municipality

Mogalakwena Municipality (Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Mogalakwena) is a local municipality within the Waterberg District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It's named after the mogalakwena river which comes from the babina Kwena fierce Nile crocodile. The seat is Mokopane. The area constitute of a cosmopolitan of different chiefdoms : mainly bakone (masenya le Matlala ) , Lebelo kgomo, transvaal Ndebele Langa & Kekana, phokela , Lekalekale , babirwa.

## Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
| Place | Code | Area (km$^2$) | Population | Most spoken language |
| Babirwa | 91901 | 5.17 | 3,328 | Northern Sotho |
| Bakenberg Langa | 91902 | 1,223.97 | 101,580 | Northern Sotho |
| Bakoni Manetji | 91903 | 581.60 | 27,375 | Northern Sotho |
| Ba-Mokopane | 91904 | 130.49 | 44,026 | Northern Sotho |
| Batlokwa | 91905 | 96.64 | 8,190 | Northern Sotho |
| Lekalakala Part 1 | 91906 | 9.24 | 20,394 | Northern Sotho |
| Lekalakala Part 2 | 91917 | 2.50 | 1,305 | Northern Sotho |
| Mahwelereng | 91907 | 10.12 | 32,819 | Northern Sotho |
| Matlala Dichoeneng | 91909 | 2.34 | 3,265 | Northern Sotho |
| Matlala | 91908 | 2.48 | 535 | Northern Sotho |
| Mokerong | 91911 | 23.93 | 45 | Northern Sotho |
| Nkiditlana | 91912 | 1.30 | 1,202 | Northern Sotho |
| Potgietersrus(Ga Mokopane) | 91913 | 65.97 | 19,391 | Afrikaans |
| Rebone | 91914 | 2.60 | 2,579 | Northern Sotho |
| Sekgakgapeng | 91915 | 4.00 | 12,113 | Northern Sotho |
| Tsebishi | 91916 | 0.92 | 1,838 | Northern Sotho |
| Remainder of the municipality | 91910 | 4,021.12 | 18,464 | Northern Sotho |

## Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-two 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty-two seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
| Party | Party | Ward | Ward | Ward | List | List | List | Total seats |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Total seats |
| | African National Congress | 36,107 | 63.58 | 29 | 37,142 | 65.13 | 13 | 42 |
| | Economic Freedom Fighters | 10,892 | 19.18 | 1 | 11,135 | 19.52 | 12 | 13 |
| | Democratic Alliance | 4,237 | 7.46 | 2 | 4,192 | 7.35 | 3 | 5 |
| | Freedom Front Plus | 1,269 | 2.23 | 0 | 1,284 | 2.25 | 2 | 2 |
| | Pan Africanist Congress of Azania | 701 | 1.23 | 0 | 651 | 1.14 | 1 | 1 |
| | Independent candidates | 1,341 | 2.36 | 0 | | | | 0 |
| | African People's Convention | 526 | 0.93 | 0 | 423 | 0.74 | 1 | 1 |
| | 7 other parties | 1,718 | 3.03 | 0 | 2,204 | 3.86 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 56,791 | 100.00 | 32 | 57,031 | 100.00 | 32 | 64 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 56,791 | 98.29 | | 57,031 | 98.30 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 990 | 1.71 | | 985 | 1.70 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 57,781 | 100.00 | | 58,016 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 141,932 | 40.71 | | 141,932 | 40.88 | | |