Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality

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.

Mangaung
Metropolitan municipality
Seal
Location in the Free State
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceFree State
SeatBloemfontein
Wards50
Government
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorOlly Mlamleli
Area
 • Total6,284 km2 (2,426 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total747,431
 • Density120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African83.3%
 • Coloured5.0%
 • Indian/Asian0.4%
 • White11.0%
First languages (2011)
 • Sotho53.3%
 • Afrikaans16.2%
 • Tswana12.6%
 • Xhosa9.9%
 • Other8%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeMAN

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]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Barolong Baga Moroka40501911.668,556Sotho
Bloemfontein40502287.46111,697Afrikaans
Botshabelo40503228.79175,822Sotho
Mangaung4050446.23217,076Sotho
Morago40505221.373,941Tswana
Opkoms405062.8415,397Afrikaans
Peter Swart405071.9710,002Sotho
Rodenbeck405082.057,837Sotho
Sonskyn405090.803,630Sotho
Thaba 'Nchu40510216.2367,269Sotho
Remainder of the municipality405114,364.1124,220Sotho

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]

PartyVotesSeats
WardListTotal%WardListTotal
African National Congress 135,351135,294270,64556.5382058
Democratic Alliance 61,87462,449124,32326.0121527
Economic Freedom Fighters 20,38321,07241,4558.7099
Independent 11,847–11,8472.50–0
Freedom Front Plus 4,7764,4119,1871.9022
African Independent Congress 1,5516,5278,0781.7022
Agency for New Agenda 5073,7534,2600.9011
Congress of the People 1,5081,3432,8510.6011
African Christian Democratic Party 9419251,8660.4000
African People's Convention 4165841,0000.2000
United Christian Democratic Party 2766789540.2000
Botshabelo Unemployed Movement 2162885040.1000
Dikwankwetla Party 2742244980.1000
Pan Africanist Congress 2002724720.1000
United Residents Front 2252114360.1000
Azanian Alliance Congress 1372994360.1000
Total 240,482238,330478,812100.05050100
Spoilt votes 4,0375,2159,252

References
  1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. "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
  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.

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