Setsoto Local Municipality
Setsoto | |
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![]() Seal | |
![]() Location in the Free State | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Free State |
District | Thabo Mofutsanyane |
Seat | Ficksburg |
Wards | 18 |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal council |
• Mayor | Seipati Mbiwe |
Area | |
• Total | 5,966 km2 (2,303 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 112,597 |
• Density | 19/km2 (49/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 92.3% |
• Coloured | 0.7% |
• Indian/Asian | 1.9% |
• White | 4.7% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Sotho | 87.2% |
• Afrikaans | 7.1% |
• English | 2.9% |
• Sign language | 1.2% |
• Other | 1.6% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Municipal code | FS191 |
Setsoto Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District of the Free State in South Africa. The name is a Sesotho word meaning "beauty". Setsoto is headed by Ficksburg, followed by Senekal, Clocolan and Marquard. It is the getaway municipality to the Kingdom of Lesotho through Ficksburg. Setsoto is rich in agriculture as well as producing cherries.
The first mayor was Ms M.Molete and the current is Ms Seipati Mbiwe.[3]
Main places[]
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
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Clocolan | [2] | 15.76 | 1,349 | Afrikaans |
Ficksburg | [3] | 50.35 | 5,400 | Afrikaans |
Hlohlolwane | [4] | 3.21 | 16,253 | Sotho |
Marquard | [5] | 7.30 | 1,033 | Afrikaans |
Matwabeng | [6] | 3.65 | 22,076 | Sotho |
Meqheleng | [7] | 4.13 | 35,848 | Sotho |
Moemaneng | [8] | 1.86 | 14,469 | Sotho |
Senekal | [9] | 32.88 | 3,466 | Sotho |
/Willem Pretorius Game Reserve | [10] | 130.11 | 185 | Sotho |
Remainder of the municipality | [11] | 5,712.13 | 12,519 | Sotho |
Politics[]
The municipal council consists of thirty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining sixteen 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 twenty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[5][6]
Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
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Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
ANC | 18,835 | 19,090 | 37,925 | 61.4 | 16 | 5 | 21 | |
Democratic Alliance | 5,076 | 4,935 | 10,011 | 16.2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
EFF | 2,693 | 2,629 | 5,322 | 8.6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
United Front of Civics | 1,398 | 3,259 | 4,657 | 7.5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
Independent | 1,532 | – | 1,532 | 2.5 | 0 | – | 0 | |
Freedom Front Plus | 534 | 461 | 995 | 1.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
COPE | 532 | – | 532 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Dikwankwetla Party | 205 | 177 | 382 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
African People's Convention | 83 | 269 | 352 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
IFP | 0 | 63 | 63 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 30,888 | 30,883 | 61,771 | 100.0 | 17 | 16 | 33 | |
Spoilt votes | 806 | 819 | 1,625 |
References[]
- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ South African Languages - Place names
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Setsoto" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Setsoto" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
External links[]
Coordinates: 28°52′25″S 27°52′41″E / 28.87361°S 27.87806°E
- Setsoto Local Municipality
- Local municipalities of the Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality