Metsimaholo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Fezile Dabi District of the
Free State in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. "Metsimaholo" means "big water" in
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 ...
.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
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 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 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
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). 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.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
References
External links
Official website
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Local municipalities of the Fezile Dabi District Municipality