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Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality

Coordinates: 29°06′00″S 26°13′00″E / 29.1000°S 26.2167°E / -29.1000; 26.2167
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Mangaung
Metropolitan municipality
Official seal of Mangaung
Seal
Location in the Free State
Location in the Free State
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceFree State
SeatBloemfontein
Wards50
Government
[1]
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorLebohang Masoetsa (acting) (ANC)
Area
 • Total6,284 km2 (2,426 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total747,431
 • Density120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 • Black African83.3%
 • Coloured5.0%
 • Indian/Asian0.4%
 • White11.0%
First languages (2011)
[3]
 • Sotho53.3%
 • Afrikaans16.2%
 • Tswana12.6%
 • Xhosa9.9%
 • Other8%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeMAN

Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality which governs Bloemfontein and surrounding towns in the Free State province of South Africa. Mangaung is a Sesotho name meaning "place of Cheetahs". Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were stunned by the vast plains that were roamed freely by cheetahs.

Before the municipal elections of 18 May 2011 Mangaung was a local municipality under the Motheo District Municipality.[4] In the election, the ANC won 58 out of 100 seats on the Metro Council, while the Democratic Alliance won 26 seats and COPE won 2 seats.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]

Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language
Barolong Baga Moroka 40501 911.66 8,556 Sotho
Bloemfontein 40502 287.46 111,697 Afrikaans
Botshabelo 40503 228.79 175,822 Sotho
Mangaung 40504 46.23 217,076 Sotho
Morago 40505 221.37 3,941 Tswana
Opkoms 40506 2.84 15,397 Afrikaans
Peter Swart 40507 1.97 10,002 Sotho
Rodenbeck 40508 2.05 7,837 Sotho
Sonskyn 40509 0.80 3,630 Sotho
Thaba 'Nchu 40510 216.23 67,269 Sotho
Remainder of the municipality 40511 4,364.11 24,220 Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of one hundred members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifty wards, while the remaining fifty 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 fifty-eight seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[6][7]

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #006600;" data-sort-value="African National Congress" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #005BA6;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance (South Africa)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #852A2A;" data-sort-value="Economic Freedom Fighters" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politics)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF6600;" data-sort-value="Freedom Front Plus" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ffb543;" data-sort-value="African Independent Congress" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Agency for New Agenda" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFCA08;" data-sort-value="Congress of the People (South African political party)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ba0c2f;" data-sort-value="African Christian Democratic Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #046D2A;" data-sort-value="African People's Convention" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #77A32E;" data-sort-value="United Christian Democratic Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Botshabelo Unemployed Movement" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #4B393B;" data-sort-value="Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #008718;" data-sort-value="Pan Africanist Congress of Azania" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="United Residents Front" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Azanian Alliance Congress" |
Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
ANC 135,351 135,294 270,645 56.5 38 20 58
DA 61,874 62,449 124,323 26.0 12 15 27
EFF 20,383 21,072 41,455 8.7 0 9 9
Independent 11,847 – 11,847 2.5 0 – 0
VF+ 4,776 4,411 9,187 1.9 0 2 2
AIC 1,551 6,527 8,078 1.7 0 2 2
Agency for New Agenda 507 3,753 4,260 0.9 0 1 1
COPE 1,508 1,343 2,851 0.6 0 1 1
ACDP 941 925 1,866 0.4 0 0 0
APC 416 584 1,000 0.2 0 0 0
UCDP 276 678 954 0.2 0 0 0
Botshabelo Unemployed Movement 216 288 504 0.1 0 0 0
Dikwankwetla Party 274 224 498 0.1 0 0 0
PAC 200 272 472 0.1 0 0 0
United Residents Front 225 211 436 0.1 0 0 0
Azanian Alliance Congress 137 299 436 0.1 0 0 0
Total 240,482 238,330 478,812 100.0 50 50 100
Spoilt votes 4,037 5,215 9,252

Mayors of Manguang

The following people have served as the Executive Mayor of the municipality since its founding in 2000:

References

  1. ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Buffalo City, Mangaung categorised Metros". BuaNews. Government Communication and Information Service. 9 December 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
  5. ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  8. ^ a b "ANC axes Bloem mayor". News24. Bloemfontein. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Free State municipal mafia foiled". Mail & Guardian. 7 April 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Mayors of the largest cities in South Africa". www.citymayors.com. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  11. ^ Gaeswe, Refilwe (19 August 2016). "Mlamleli ready to lead Mangaung". OFM. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  12. ^ Nkuyane, Lucky (14 August 2020). "Mlamleli officially out, interim mayor appointed". OFM. Retrieved 14 August 2020.

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