City of Matlosana

City of Matlosana
Local municipality
Seal
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 [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Cllr Nonhlupheko Tsolela (ANC)
Area
• Total	3,561 km2 (1,375 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	398,676
• Density	110/km2 (290/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	81.0%
• Coloured	3.5%
• Indian/Asian	0.8%
• White	14.5%
First languages (2011) [2]
• 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.

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[3]

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.^[4] The following table shows the results of the election.

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 ...^[5]

• http://www.matlosana.gov.za