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", as it was not uncommon for the Basotho to name warrior regiments after ferocious animals.
Mangaung | |
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Metropolitan municipality | |
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Country | South Africa |
Province | Free State |
Seat | Bloemfontein |
Wards | 50 |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal council |
• Mayor | Mxolisi Siyonzana (ANC) |
Area | |
• Total | 6,284 km2 (2,426 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 747,431 |
• Density | 120/km2 (310/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 83.3% |
• Coloured | 5.0% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.4% |
• White | 11.0% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Sotho | 53.3% |
• Afrikaans | 16.2% |
• Tswana | 12.6% |
• Xhosa | 9.9% |
• Other | 8% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Municipal code | MAN |
Before the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, Mangaung was a local municipality under the Motheo District Municipality.[3] In the 2021 South African municipal elections, held on 1 November 2021, the ANC won 51 out of 100 seats on the Metro Council, while the Democratic Alliance won 26 seats and Economic Freedom Fighters won 12 seats.
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
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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 |
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 2021 South African municipal elections of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[5]
Mangaung local election, 1 November 2021 | ||||||||
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Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
African National Congress | 87,100 | 90,672 | 177,772 | 50.6% | 40 | 11 | 51 | |
Democratic Alliance | 45,482 | 44,857 | 90,339 | 25.7% | 11 | 15 | 26 | |
Economic Freedom Fighters | 19,681 | 20,018 | 39,699 | 11.3% | 0 | 12 | 12 | |
Freedom Front Plus | 7,970 | 7,771 | 15,741 | 4.5% | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
Patriotic Alliance | 3,196 | 3,126 | 6,322 | 1.8% | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats | 2,821 | 2,220 | 5,041 | 1.4% | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
African Independent Congress | 2,970 | 1,484 | 4,454 | 1.3% | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 1,292 | 1,224 | 2,516 | 0.7% | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
African Transformation Movement | 1,018 | 1,071 | 2,089 | 0.6% | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
United Christian Democratic Party | 658 | 675 | 1,333 | 0.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent candidates | 992 | – | 992 | 0.3% | 0 | – | 0 | |
Congress of the People | 276 | 534 | 810 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
United Independent Movement | 290 | 293 | 583 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
African People's Convention | 354 | 216 | 570 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Africa's New Dawn | 241 | 236 | 477 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Botshabelo Unemployed Movement | 208 | 244 | 452 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Forum for Service Delivery | 124 | 288 | 412 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Mangaung Community Forum | 27 | 366 | 393 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Agency for New Agenda | 105 | 241 | 346 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
United Residents Front | 110 | 84 | 194 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
The Organic Humanity Movement | 109 | 73 | 182 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
National Freedom Party | 33 | 138 | 171 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
International Party | 2 | 140 | 142 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
South African Royal Kingdoms Organization | 18 | 55 | 73 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 175,077 | 176,026 | 351,103 | 51 | 50 | 101 | ||
Valid votes | 175,077 | 176,026 | 351,103 | 98.4% | ||||
Spoilt votes | 2,850 | 2,736 | 5,586 | 1.6% | ||||
Total votes cast | 177,927 | 178,762 | 356,689 | |||||
Voter turnout | 179,703 | |||||||
Registered voters | 410,785 | |||||||
Turnout percentage | 43.7% |
The following people have served as the Executive Mayor of the municipality since its founding in 2000:
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