Kgetlengrivier Local Municipality

Kgetlengrivier Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Kgetlengrivier; Afrikaans: Kgetlengrivier Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa.

Main places

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

Place	Area (km2)	Population	Most spoken language
Borolelo	0.80	4,826	Tswana
Derby	1.93	1,703	Tswana
Koster	5.90	2,141	Afrikaans
Nooitgedacht	1.39	353	Tswana
Reagile	1.55	8,441	Tswana
Swartruggens	7.53	1,536	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	3,954.06	17,487	Tswana

Languages

The 2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality: 67.1% Setswana; 17.4% Afrikaans; 4.2% English; 1.4% IsiZulu; 1.3% Sesotho; 1.0% IsiXhosa; 0.9% IsiNdebele ...

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eight wards, while the remaining six 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 seven seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.

Party	Ward	List	Total seats
Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	5,677	53.87	6	5,943	58.41	1	7
	Freedom Front Plus	1,043	9.90	0	1,361	13.38	2	2
	Economic Freedom Fighters	1,084	10.29	0	1,267	12.45	2	2
	Independent candidates	1,951	18.51	1		1
	Democratic Alliance	672	6.38	0	935	9.19	1	1
	5 other parties	111	1.05	0	668	6.57	0	0
Total	10,538	100.00	7	10,174	100.00	6	13

Valid votes	10,538	97.89		10,174	94.77
Invalid/blank votes	227	2.11		561	5.23
Total votes	10,765	100.00		10,735	100.00
Registered voters/turnout	21,952	49.04		21,952	48.90

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