Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 1,717 km² Black african population 82.3% Native sotho speakers 59.9% Province Free State | Wards 21 Municipal code FS204 White population 16.4% Native afrikaans speakers 16.7% Native xhosa speakers 7.6% | |
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Metsimaholo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Fezile Dabi District of the Free State in South Africa. "Metsimaholo" means "big water" in Sesotho.
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- Update eff on a campaign trail at metsimaholo local municipality
- Anc loses metsimaholo local municipality free state
- Main places
- Politics
- References
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Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-one wards, while the remaining twenty-one 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, no party won a majority on the council. The Democratic Alliance (DA) formed a coalition with the Metsimaholo Community Association (MCA) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), supported by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), to govern the municipality. The MCA's Sello Hlasa was elected mayor, while Arnoldi du Ploy and Linda Radebe of the DA were elected Speaker and Council Whip respectively. The following table shows the results of the election.
