Metsimaholo Local Municipality

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Metsimaholo
Local municipality
Metsimaholo CoA.png
Seal
Map of the Free State with Metsimaholo highlighted.svg
Location in the Free State
Country South Africa
Province Free State
District Fezile Dabi
Seat Sasolburg
Wards 23
Government
[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • MayorJeff Zwane(Democratic Alliance)
Area
 • Total1,717 km2 (663 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total149,108
 • Density87/km2 (220/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 •  Black African 82.3%
 •  Coloured 0.7%
 •  Indian/Asian 0.3%
 •  White 16.4%
First languages (2011)
[3]
 •  Sotho 59.9%
 •  Afrikaans 16.7%
 •  Xhosa 7.6%
 •  Zulu 6.0%
 • Other9.8%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeFS204

Metsimaholo Municipality (Sotho : Masepala wa Metsimaholo; Afrikaans : Metsimaholo Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Fezile Dabi District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa. Metsimaholo means "big water" in Sesotho. [4]

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Main places

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

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Bertha Village 41901 0.58666 Sotho
Coalbrook 41902 0.6930 Xhosa
Deneysville 41903 6.501,124 Afrikaans
Holly Country 41904 0.93614Afrikaans
Metsimaholo 41914 0.793,193Sotho
Oranjeville 41906 7.73297Afrikaans
Refengkgotso 41907 5.6513,792Sotho
Richmond Valley 41908 0.37209Afrikaans
Sasolburg 41909 49.8224,568Afrikaans
Taaibos 41910 1.501,301Afrikaans
Vaal Power 41911 0.65798Sotho
Viljoensdrift 41912 2.49589Sotho
Zamdela 41913 10.2157,070Sotho
Remainder of the municipality 41905 1,651.3711,723Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-six members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-three 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, no party won a majority on the council. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) formed a coalition with the African National Congress (ANC). The EFF's Selloane Motjeane was elected mayor, while Lucas Fisher of the ANC was elected Speaker and Fikile Msokweni of the ANC the Council Whip. However, that coalition collapsed and Jeff Zwane of the Democratic Alliance was subsequently elected mayor. [6]

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election. [7]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
African National Congress 12,61234.231512,86034.71116
Democratic Alliance 9,61226.0969,74426.30612
Economic Freedom Fighters 9,16024.8629,52125.691012
Freedom Front Plus 1,8264.9601,8424.9733
Independent candidates 1,1783.2000
African Independent Congress 5881.6005261.4211
Metsimaholo Community Association 4181.1304921.3311
African Transformation Movement 3871.0504591.2411
11 other parties1,0652.8901,6104.3500
Total36,846100.002337,054100.002346
Valid votes36,84698.3337,05498.66
Invalid/blank votes6251.675021.34
Total votes37,471100.0037,556100.00
Registered voters/turnout81,37946.0581,37946.15

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The Metsimaholo Local Municipality council consists of forty-six members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-three are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

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. ↑ Lekabe, Thapelo (2021-12-03). "DA's Jeff Zwane elected new mayor of Metsimaholo after resignation of EFF mayor". The Citizen. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
  7. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Metsimaholo". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

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