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Mohokare Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Xhariep District of the Free State in
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. The name is a
Sesotho Sotho () or Sesotho () or Southern Sotho is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken primarily by the Basotho in Lesotho, where it is the national and official language; South Africa (particularly the Free ...
word for Caledon River, which runs through the municipality.


Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:


Politics

The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
in six wards, while the remaining five 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 The 2021 South African municipal elections were held on 1 November 2021, to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. It is the sixth municipal election held in South Afric ...
the
African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) won a majority of eight seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.


References


External links

* http://www.mohokare.gov.za/ {{coord, 30, 17, 57, S, 27, 05, 36, E, region:ZA_type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Local municipalities of the Xhariep District Municipality