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City of Matlosana
Local municipality
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Location in the North West
Coordinates: 26°50′S 26°30′E / 26.833°S 26.500°E / -26.833; 26.500
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Dr Kenneth Kaunda
Seat	Klerksdorp
Wards	35
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Cllr Nonhlupheko Tsolela (ANC)
Area
• Total	3,561 km (1,375 sq mi)
Population
• Total	398,676
• Density	110/km (290/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	81.0%
• Coloured	3.5%
• Indian/Asian	0.8%
• White	14.5%
First languages (2011)
• Tswana	36.7%
• Sotho	20.3%
• Afrikaans	17.6%
• Xhosa	14.3%
• Other	11.1%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	NW403

The City of Matlosana (Tswana: Toropo ya Matlosana; Sotho: Toropo ya Matlosana; Afrikaans: Stad Matlosana; Xhosa: IsiXeko saseMatlosana), formerly the City Council of Klerksdorp, is a local municipality within the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine wards, while the remaining thirty-eight 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 seats in the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

Languages

The 2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality: 36.0% Setswana; 19.9% Sesotho; 17.3% Afrikaans; 14.0% IsiXhosa; 4.3% English; 2.1% IsiZulu; 1.2% Xitsonga ...

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
4. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — City of Matlosana". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
5. "Local Municipality | Statistics South Africa".

External links

• http://www.matlosana.gov.za

v t e Municipalities of the North West
District and local	Bojanala Platinum Moretele Madibeng Rustenburg Kgetlengrivier Moses Kotane Ngaka Modiri Molema Ratlou Tswaing Mahikeng Ditsobotla Ramotshere Moiloa Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati Naledi Mamusa Greater Taung Lekwa-Teemane Kagisano–Molopo Dr Kenneth Kaunda JB Marks City of Matlosana Maquassi Hills
List of municipalities in the North West

• Local municipalities of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality