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Setsoto Local Municipality

Local municipality in Free State, South Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Setsoto Local Municipality
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Setsoto Municipality (Sotho: Masepala wa Setsoto) is a local municipality within the Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa. Setsoto is a Sesotho word meaning "beauty". The seat is Ficksburg. Other towns include Senekal, Clocolan and Marquard. The municipality is rich in agriculture and is known for producing cherries.

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The first mayor was Ms M.Molete and the current is Ms Seipati Mbiwe.[4]

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Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]

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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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seventeen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[6]

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