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Ephraim Mogale
Ephraim Mogale
Local municipality
	Seal
	Location in Limpopo
	Coordinates: 24°55′S 29°20′E / 24.917°S 29.333°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Sekhukhune
Seat	Marble Hall
Wards	16
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Bella Kupa
Area
• Total	2,011 km2 (776 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	123,648
• Density	61/km2 (160/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	97.8%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• White	1.6%
First languages (2011)
• Sepedi	78.8%
• Tsonga	6.9%
• Southern Ndebele	3.8%
• Zulu	2.2%
• Other	8.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	LIM471

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Ephraim Mogale Municipality (Template:Lang-nso), known until 28 January 2010 as the Greater Marble Hall Municipality, is a local municipality within the Sekhukhune District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Marble Hall.

The municipality is named after Ephraim Phumuga Mogale, a South African freedom fighter.^[3]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[4]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population	Most spoken language
Elandskraal	98301	2.34	5,590	Northern Sotho
Marble Hall	88302	7.76	2,780	Afrikaans
Matlala	98302	678.08	35,108	Northern Sotho
Mokerong	98303	61.02	0	-
Moutse 1	88303	167.51	36,941	Northern Sotho
Nebo	98304	0.25	1,185	Northern Sotho
Potgietersrus	98305	2.62	1,405	Northern Sotho
Rahlangane Part 1	98306	61.65	18,695	Northern Sotho
Rahlangane Part 2	88304	1.58	39	Northern Sotho
Van der Merwe's Kraal	98307	2.05	4,877	Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality	88301	807.00	14,686	Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Sixteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in sixteen wards, while the remaining sixteen 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 nineteen seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.^[5]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	14,546	57.15	13	15,967	64.29	6	19
	Economic Freedom Fighters	4,851	19.06	0	5,374	21.64	7	7
	Independent candidates	2,947	11.58	2				2
	Democratic Alliance	1,237	4.86	1	1,339	5.39	1	2
	Bolsheviks Party of South Africa	389	1.53	0	399	1.61	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	382	1.50	0	373	1.50	1	1
	14 other parties	1,100	4.32	0	1,382	5.56	0	0
Total		25,452	100.00	16	24,834	100.00	16	32

Valid votes		25,452	98.46		24,834	96.12
Invalid/blank votes		399	1.54		1,002	3.88
Total votes		25,851	100.00		25,836	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		58,432	44.24		58,432	44.22

Sports

Local sports teams in Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality include FC Maginim Ephraim Mogale, a football club.^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ History of Ephraim Mogale
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Ephraim Mogale". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
^ The Mogaladi Group
^ Ephraim Mogale football

External links

Official website

[muni_mayor-1] "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.

[muni_population-2] "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[3] History of Ephraim Mogale

[4] Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[5] "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Ephraim Mogale". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2023-11-09.

[6] The Mogaladi Group

[7] Ephraim Mogale football

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 == Politics ==
+{{main|Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality elections}}
-The municipal council consists of thirty-two members elected by [[mixed-member proportional representation]]. Sixteen councillors are elected by [[first-past-the-post voting]] in sixteen [[ward (South Africa)|wards]], while the remaining sixteen are chosen from [[party list]]s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the [[South African municipal election, 2016|election of 3 August 2016]], the [[African National Congress]] (ANC) won a majority of twenty seats on the council.
+The municipal council consists of thirty-two members elected by [[mixed-member proportional representation]]. Sixteen councillors are elected by [[first-past-the-post voting]] in sixteen [[ward (South Africa)|wards]], while the remaining sixteen are chosen from [[party list]]s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the [[2021 South African municipal elections|election of 1 November 2021]], the [[African National Congress]] (ANC) won a majority of nineteen seats on the council.
-The following table shows the results of the election.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/402/Detailed%20Results/NP/LIM471.pdf |title=Results Summary – All Ballots: Ephraim Mogale |publisher=Independent Electoral Commission |access-date=26 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/402/Seat%20Calculation%20Detail/NP/LIM471.pdf |title=Seat Calculation Detail: Ephraim Mogale |publisher=Independent Electoral Commission |access-date=26 January 2017}}</ref>
+The following table shows the results of the election.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Ephraim Mogale |url=https://wikitable.frith.dev/lge2021/LIM471/short |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=wikitable.frith.dev}}</ref>
+{{Election results
-{| class=wikitable style="text-align:right"
+|firstround=Ward |secondround=List
-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Party !!colspan="4" align="center"| Votes !!colspan="3" align="center"| Seats
+|party1=[[African National Congress]] |votes1=14546 |votes1_2=15967 |seats1=13 |seats1_2=6 |totseats1=19
-|-
+|party2=[[Economic Freedom Fighters]] |votes2=4851 |votes2_2=5374 |seats2=0 |seats2_2=7 |totseats2=7
-! Ward !! List !! Total !! % !! Ward !! List !! Total
+|party3=[[Independent candidates]] |votes3=2947 |votes3_2= |seats3=2 |seats3_2= |totseats3=2
-|-
+|party4=[[Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|Democratic Alliance]] |votes4=1237 |votes4_2=1339 |seats4=1 |seats4_2=1 |totseats4=2
-| {{Party name with colour |African National Congress}}
+|party5=[[Bolsheviks Party of South Africa]] |votes5=389 |votes5_2=399 |seats5=0 |seats5_2=1 |totseats5=1
-| 16,053 || 17,452 || 33,505 || 61.0 || 14 || 6 || 20
+|party6=[[Freedom Front Plus]] |votes6=382 |votes6_2=373 |seats6=0 |seats6_2=1 |totseats6=1
-|-
+|party7=14 other parties |votes7=1100 |votes7_2=1382 |seats7=0 |seats7_2=0 |totseats7=0
-| {{Party name with colour |Economic Freedom Fighters}}
+|invalid=399 |invalid2=1002
-| 4,924 || 5,614 || 10,538 || 19.2 || 0 || 7 || 7
+|electorate=58432 |electorate2=58432
-|-
+}}
-| {{Party name with colour |Democratic Alliance (South Africa)}}
-| 1,785 || 2,067 || 3,852 || 7.0 || 1 || 2 || 3
-|-
-| {{Party name with colour |Independent (politics)}}
-| 3,783 || – || 3,783 || 6.9 || 1 || – || 1
-|-
-| {{Party name with colour |Freedom Front Plus}}
-| 342 || 319 || 661 || 1.2 || 0 || 1 || 1
-|-
-|style="background-color:white"| ||style="text-align:left"| Others
-| 1,137 || 1,481 || 2,618 || 4.8 || 0 || 0 || 0
-|-
-|colspan="2" style="text-align:left"| '''Total'''
-| '''28,024''' || '''26,933''' || '''54,957''' || '''100.0''' || '''16''' || '''16''' || '''32'''
-|-
-|colspan="2" style="text-align:left"| Spoilt votes
-| 507 || 1,538 || 2,045
-|}
 ==Sports==