Mafube Local Municipality

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Mafube
Local municipality
Mafube CoA.png
Seal
Map of the Free State with Mafube highlighted.svg
Location in the Free State
Country South Africa
Province Free State
District Fezile Dabi
Seat Frankfort
Wards 9
Government
[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • MayorJabulani Sigasa (ANC)
Area
 • Total3,971 km2 (1,533 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total57,876
 • Density15/km2 (38/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 •  Black African 91.9%
 •  Coloured 0.6%
 •  Indian/Asian 0.3%
 •  White 7.0%
First languages (2011)
[3]
 •  Sotho 64.4%
 •  Zulu 20.9%
 •  Afrikaans 8.3%
 •  Xhosa 1.7%
 • Other4.7%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeFS205

Mafube Municipality (Sotho : Masepala wa Mafube; Zulu : UMasipala wase Mafube) is a local municipality within the Fezile Dabi District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa.

Contents

Mafube is a Sesotho word meaning "dawning of the new day". [4]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: [5]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Cornelia 42001 1.951,502 Sotho
Frankfort 42002 32.641,900 Zulu
Mafahlaneng 42003 145.685,367Sotho
Namahadi 42005 4.2819,413Sotho
Ntshwanatsatsi 42006 0.361,867Sotho
Qalabotjha 42007 1.9517,244Sotho
Villiers 42008 24.27984Zulu
Remainder of the municipality 42004 4,371.529,363Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventeen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining 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 reduced majority of ten seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election. [6]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
African National Congress 7,31555.6997,59058.28110
Economic Freedom Fighters 1,70813.0002,03615.6333
Freedom Front Plus 1,2169.2601,2429.5422
Democratic Alliance 1,0267.8101,1959.1822
Independent candidates 1,44611.0100
3 other parties4243.2309607.3700
Total13,135100.00913,023100.00817
Valid votes13,13598.4013,02398.25
Invalid/blank votes2131.602321.75
Total votes13,348100.0013,255100.00
Registered voters/turnout29,51045.2329,51044.92

Mismanagement

In 2015 the municipal manager, Nkabi Hlubi, allegedly awarded tenders to the value of R21 million to Pit Dog Trading. The latter company allegedly manipulated its tender grading and provided Hlubi with kickbacks of R1 million each time a municipal payment was made. Hlubi appeared in the Bloemfontein magistrate's court in 2021 on charges of fraud and corruption. [7]

As of January 2024, the municipality is under administration, one of 32 in the country, and three in the Free State where the provincial executive has intervened due to maladministration [8]

In September 2024, the Municipal Workers Retirement Fund took the municipality to court after the municipality had deducted close to R38 million from workers for pension fund contributions, but never paid this over to the pension fund. [9] The court ordered the municipality to pay the outstanding pension fund money. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. ↑ South African Languages - Place names
  5. ↑ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa [ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Mafube". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  7. ↑ "Man het munisipaliteit glo uit miljoene bedrieg". maroelamedia.co.za. Maroela Media. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  8. ↑ Thorne, Seth. "South Africa's 32 most 'dysfunctional' municipalities". Businesstech. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  9. ↑ https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/who-took-the-money-free-state-municipality-faces-court-battle-over-missing-r38-million-pension-funds-bb194f45-0e81-49e4-94c6-93eee76278a7
  10. ↑ "Court orders Mafube to pay pension fund R37m it owes". 15 September 2024.

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