Mafube Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Fezile Dabi District of the
Free State in
South Africa
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. The name is a
Sesotho
Sotho () or Sesotho () or Southern Sotho is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken primarily by the Basotho in Lesotho, where it is the national and official language; South Africa (particularly the Free ...
word meaning "dawning of the new day".
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
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 a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
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
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) won a reduced majority of ten seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
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.
References
External links
* https://archive.today/20130621004819/http://www.mafube.gov.za/
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Local municipalities of the Fezile Dabi District Municipality