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Ditsobotla
Local municipality
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Location in the North West
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Ngaka Modiri Molema
Seat	Lichtenburg
Wards	21
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Tsholofelo Moreo
Area
• Total	6,465 km (2,496 sq mi)
Population
• Total	168,902
• Density	26/km (68/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	89.1%
• Coloured	1.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.6%
• White	8.2%
First languages (2011)
• Tswana	78.6%
• Afrikaans	9.8%
• Xhosa	3.0%
• English	2.4%
• Other	6.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	NW384

Ditsobotla Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Ditsobotla) is a local municipality within the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Lichtenburg.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 twenty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

After infighting between two African National Congress factions, resulting in the council having two mayors and two speakers, the council was dissolved by the national and provincial governments. A by-election to elect an entirely new council will be held in December 2022.

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 — Ditsobotla". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
5. Importer, Pongrass (30 November 2022). "Parties aim to take power from ANC in by-elections amid disagreements". The Citizen. Retrieved 3 December 2022.

External links

• Official site

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