Moqhaka is a municipality in the
Fezile Dabi District,
Free State Province, South Africa. In 2001 the population was 267 881 with a total area of 7925 km ². The seat of local government is
Kroonstad. The community name is the South-Sotho-word for "crown".
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-four members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation
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. Twenty-two councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in twenty-two
wards
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Division or unit
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, while the remaining twenty-two are chosen from
party list
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s 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 (ANC) won a majority of twenty-two seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
References
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