Country South Africa Seat Frankfort Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 3,971 km² Black african population 91.9% Native sotho speakers 64.4% | District Fezile Dabi Wards 9 Municipal code FS205 White population 7% Native afrikaans speakers 8.3% Province Free State | |
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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".
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Map of Frankfort, South Africa
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 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 (ANC) won a majority of thirteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.