Mafube Local Municipality


Mafube Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Fezile Dabi District of the Free State in South Africa. The name is a Sesotho word meaning "dawning of the new day".

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Cornelia1.951,502Sotho
Frankfort32.641,900Afrikaans
Mafahlaneng145.685,367Sotho
Namahadi4.2819,413Sotho
Ntshwanatsatsi0.361,867Sotho
Qalabotjha1.9517,244Sotho
Villiers24.27984Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality4,371.529,363Sotho

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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of thirteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.