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Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality governs an area of just over 2 000 square kilometres in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo, with its seat at Marble Hall. The municipality took its current name in 2010; before that, Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality was known as Greater Marble Hall Local Municipality.
- Registered name
- Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality
- Type
- Local government (local municipality)
- Fields funded
- Critical and scarce skills identified by the municipality
- Website
- ephraimmogalelm.gov.za
- Phone
- 013 261 8400
A municipality’s planning cycle in public view
Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality’s website lists the documents that shape its work each year. The municipality published notices on adopting its draft integrated development plan and budget for 2026-2027 and on approving its service delivery and budget implementation plan for 2026-2027. The site also keeps older records, such as the audit opinion for the 2017-2018 financial year and annual reports.
Those documents matter to bursary applicants. The integrated development plan sets out the municipality’s priorities, from water and roads to local economic development, and a student who reads it can see which skills the municipality needs most.
The Ephraim Mogale bursary
Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality offers a bursary to support students from within its jurisdiction in tertiary study, and sometimes further study, in fields the municipality has identified as critical or scarce skills. The area’s population lives mostly in agricultural and rural communities, and the irrigation farming around Marble Hall and the Loskop Dam scheme adds agriculture to the skills the area depends on.
BursariesAfrica’s guide to the Ephraim Mogale bursary has not been refreshed with 2027 dates, so treat it as background and confirm the current call with the municipality.
How residents can research the bursary
Call the municipality’s offices in Marble Hall on 013 261 8400 and ask whether a bursary will be advertised for 2027, which critical skills it will fund and whether bursars must work for the municipality afterwards. Ask where adverts appear, since the municipality publishes many notices on its website and on notice boards.
Download the latest integrated development plan from the municipal website and note the priorities it lists. Linking your field of study to one of those priorities strengthens a motivation letter.
Prepare proof of residence from your ward councillor or traditional authority and certified copies of your ID and results before the advert appears.
Limpopo students can find more public funding on our Government Bursaries page.
