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Improvements, especially in the facade and tower, were the work of the government architect F. Taylor. The tower was, among other things, narrower and 10.5 m higher than the original one, and was fitted with a rounded crown. From 1877 to 1902, the Old Government Building was the headquarters of the Government of the Orange Free State.
Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae was elected Premier of the Free State, while Zanele Sifuba was re-elected as speaker. Julia Maboya was elected deputy speaker. [3] However, less than a week later Sifuba and Maboya were appointed to serve in the Executive Council, which resulted in them resigning as speaker and deputy speaker, respectively. [4]
The Free State province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality and four district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into eighteen local municipalities.
The Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality (Sotho: Masepala o Moholo wa Mangaung; Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseMangawunge; Afrikaans: Mangaung Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit; Tswana: Mmasepala wa Toropokgolo ya Mangaung; Xhosa: uMasipala oMbaxa wase Mangaung) is a metropolitan municipality which governs Bloemfontein and surrounding towns in the Free State province of South Africa.
The Free State provincial government is based in Bloemfontein, the provincial capital. The Free State Division of the High Court of South Africa also sits in Bleomfontein. Like South Africa's other provinces, the Free State has a parliamentary system of government, with the provincial premier elected by the Free State Provincial Legislature.
The district was divided into three local municipalities: Mangaung, Mantsopa, and Naledi.. Of these, Mangaung Local Municipality — now Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality — is the most densely populated; it features the greatest concentration of well-developed infrastructure and services in the Bloemfontein area, which offers a wide range of amenities to the surrounding rural communities.
The Free State Provincial Legislature chooses the Premier of the Free State, the head of the Free State's provincial executive. The legislature can force the Premier to resign by passing a motion of no confidence. Although the Executive Council is chosen by the Premier, the legislature may pass a motion of no confidence to force the Premier to ...
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), formerly known as the Appellate Division, is the second-highest court of appeal in South Africa below the Constitutional Court.The country's apex court from 1910 to 1994, it no longer holds that position, having been displaced in constitutional matters by the Constitutional Court in 1994, and in all matters by 2013.