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Matjhabeng Municipality (Sotho: Masepala wa Matjhabeng; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Matjhabeng; Afrikaans: Matjhabeng Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Lejweleputswa District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa. The municipality includes Welkom, Virginia, Odendaalsrus and Allanridge. [4]
Welkom is also known as Circle City, City Within A Garden, Mvela and Matjhabeng. The city's Sesotho name, Matjhabeng means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho , Malawi and Mozambique etc. met to work in the mines of the gold fields .
Masilonyana Local Municipality: FS181 Lejweleputswa Theunissen: 6,618 62,770 9.5 Matjhabeng Local Municipality: FS184 Lejweleputswa Welkom: 5,690 429,113 75.4 Metsimaholo Local Municipality: FS204 Fezile Dabi Sasolburg: 1,717 163,564 95.3 Mohokare Local Municipality: FS163 Xhariep Zastron: 8,776 35,840 4.1 Moqhaka Local Municipality: FS201 ...
The Matjhabeng Local Municipality council consists of seventy-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Thirty-six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-six wards, while the remaining thirty-six are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
Thanduxolo David Khalipha (born 26 January 1963) is a South African politician who has been the Executive Mayor of the Matjhabeng Local Municipality since 2021. He was a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from the Free State from 2019 to 2021. Khalipha is a member of the African National Congress.
Leeto and Health MEC Benny Malakoane appeared in the Welkom Regional Court on 1 August 2014 on fraud and corruption charges relating to Malakoane's tenure as Matjhabeng municipal manager while Leeto served as the municipality's mayor; the case was transferred to the Bloemfontein Regional Court. [16] Their trial officially began in November 2015 ...
In 1903, Ventersburg became a municipality. On 5 December 2000 it was incorporated into the Matjhabeng Local Municipality along with the city of Welkom and the towns of Allanridge, Hennenman, Odendaalsrus, and Virginia. Under apartheid, many black residents lived outside Ventersburg in Mmamahabane, an extra-municipal township. The location has ...
On 5 December 2000, Virginia was incorporated into the Matjhabeng Local Municipality along with the city of Welkom and the towns of Allanridge, Hennenman, Odendaalsrus and Ventersburg. During the apartheid era, black people Lived outside Virginia in the location of Meloding. The town itself boomed during the gold mining years' golden age and ...