Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 6,524 km² Black african population 91.2% Native sotho speakers 54% Province Free State | Wards 8 Municipal code FS183 White population 6.9% Native afrikaans speakers 8.3% Native tswana speakers 12% | |
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Tswelopele Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Lejweleputswa District of the Free State in South Africa. The name is a Sesotho word meaning "progress".
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Map of Hoopstad, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of fifteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eight councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eight wards, while the remaining seven 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 eleven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
Tswelopele Local Municipality Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA