Ramotshere Moiloa Municipality (), formerly Zeerust Municipality, 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 Zeerust.
History The municipality is named after Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa (1910-1982), a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s. Kgosi Moiloa was banished by the Apartheid Government in 1957 after he refused to enforce the carrying of passbooks by Hurutshe women as obliged by apartheid law. The women of Dinokana had largely refused to carry the passbooks, and Kgosi Moiloa had supported their decision. At the first meeting held by the native commissioner, 1000 women gathered but only 70 passbooks were taken out, Kgosi Moiloa was deposed a week later. His banishment order was revoked on 1 January 1971. Today, in acknowledgment of his contributions to the struggle for democracy the local municipality bears his name.
Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language Bahurutshe Ba Ga Gopane 61001485.8619,067Tswana Bahurutshe Ba Ga Le-Ncoe 61002260.439,743Tswana Bahurutshe Ba Ga Moilwa 61003920.2448,517Tswana Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mokgoswa 6100499.471,474Tswana Bahurutshe Ba Ga Mothogae 6100531.64123Tswana Bahurutshe Ba Ga Suping 61006178.152,794Tswana Bahurutshe Bo Manyane 61007155.265,205Tswana Banabakae 6100843.018,555Tswana Ikageleng 610091.366,562Tswana Leeufontein 6101010.855,685Tswana Madikwe Part 1 610113.611,191Tswana Madikwe Part 2 610162.90985Tswana Marico Nature Reserve 6101218.76352Tswana Mixed TA 61013144.320 - Welbedacht 610145.815,993Tswana Zeerust 6101711.026,393Afrikaans Remainder of the municipality 610154,818.7714,795Tswana
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen 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-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links Official site