Which party controls the council?
Voters choose the (Council The group of elected people who make decisions for a municipality. They pass its budget and choose the mayor.). The council chooses the (Mayor The leader of the municipality. Councillors choose this person, not voters. So the seats each party wins decide who can lead.).
District publications from June 2026 show Motseokae Maje as executive mayor. An executive mayor makes many of the council's decisions. In 2021, Maje was elected on the ANC district list. This is the (Party A group of people who stand for election together, with shared plans.) list of names for the (District council A council over several local municipalities. It runs services for the whole area. There are 44. Voters outside the metros also vote for it.). Maje replaced Tebogo Babuile (EFF). Babuile was elected mayor at the first council meeting in 2021. Babuile was later removed. As of April 2026, Kgalalelo Seroko is speaker. The speaker chairs council meetings. This is a district council. In 2021, the ANC won 7 of the 12 (Seat A place on the council, held by one councillor. A party with more votes gets more of these places.) voters choose directly. The (Local municipality A municipality for a town or rural area outside the metros. There are 205.) send the other members.
What the sources said, by date
On the council's website, no date shown
Tebogo Babuile (EFF) was elected executive mayor of the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District. Babuile won 17 votes and the ANC nominee won 10. The ANC held 16 seats and the EFF 10.
On the council's website, no date shown
The ANC caucus (the group of ANC (Councillor A person elected to make decisions for a municipality, such as the budget and who the mayor is. Each one holds one seat.)) in the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District removed EFF mayor Tebogo Babuile. ANC councillor Sense Maje replaced him.
As of 5 Jun 2026
The district has an internal news update dated 5 June 2026. It names Councillor Motseokae Maje as executive mayor. This is for the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality.
This was true then. Newer rows above may change it.
As of 24 Apr 2026
A news item on the district's website dated 24 April 2026 names Dr Kgalalelo Seroko as speaker of the district council.
As of 9 Nov 2021
In 2021 Motseokae Alpheus Maje was elected to the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati district council. Maje was first on the ANC's district list.
How were the seats split?
Voters choose 12 of this (District council A council over several local municipalities. It runs services for the whole area. There are 44. Voters outside the metros also vote for it.) (Seat A place on the council, held by one councillor. A party with more votes gets more of these places.) directly. The (Local municipality A municipality for a town or rural area outside the metros. There are 205.) send the other members. A (Party A group of people who stand for election together, with shared plans.) needs 7 of these 12 seats to win more than half of them. The ANC has 7, so it did.
- ANC7
- EFF3
- Azanian Independent Community Movement1
- DA1
Each dot is one seat. The dot with a ring is seat 7. That is more than half of the seats voters choose directly. Each party shows in its own colour. One party has no colour on record, so it is grey too.
What has the council done?
We have not checked any claims about this (Council The group of elected people who make decisions for a municipality. They pass its budget and choose the mayor.) yet. That is not a mark for or against it.
Core servicesWater, lights, rubbish and roads: what your council runs.No checks yet
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What the official records say
From the Auditor-General and the national government. Every council gets the same checks. A council that is not on a list shows no row.
The Auditor-General gave the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati district council a qualified audit opinion for 2024-25. It got the same result in 2023-24.
This means some parts of its accounts had big mistakes, or it could not show proof for some amounts.
Auditor-General of South Africa, 24 June 2026
In July 2026, the Minister of Cooperative Governance told Parliament that the intervention at the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati district council is ongoing. It began in January 2022, under section 139(5) of the Constitution.
This means the province stepped in because the council was in a serious money crisis. The council must follow a plan to fix its finances (a financial recovery plan).
In May 2025, Parliament's Budget Office described the recovery plan like this: "Poor progress reporting points towards a lack of commitment to implementing the FRP" FRP is short for financial recovery plan.
Department of Cooperative Governance, 3 July 2026
The Auditor-General found a going concern uncertainty at the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati district council in 2024-25, for the second year in a row.
This means there is serious doubt that the council can keep paying its bills and keep working.
Auditor-General of South Africa, 24 June 2026
How does voting work here?
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