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The Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality council consists of one hundred and one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Fifty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifty-one wards, while the remaining fifty are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
He was sworn in as a councillor on 28 March 2023. [4] On 14 April 2023, Nthatisi and the ANC boycotted a council meeting to the elect the metro's new mayor, however, since two expelled ANC councillors attended the meeting, the meeting reached a quorum and Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats president Papi Mokoena was elected mayor unopposed. [ 5 ]
Before the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, Mangaung was a local municipality within the Motheo District Municipality. [4] In the municipal elections held on 1 November 2021, the African National Congress won 51 out of 100 seats on the Metro Council, while the Democratic Alliance won 26 seats and the Economic Freedom Fighters won 12 seats.
Sibongile Pearm Tsoleli is a South African politician currently serving as an African National Congress councillor in the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality.She also serves in the Mayoral Committee of acting Mangaung mayor Gregory Nthatisi as the Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Public Safety.
In 2016, Marais was elected as an EFF councillor in the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality. She served as leader of the EFF's municipal caucus during her tenure as a councillor. In January 2020, Marais said that the municipality's Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMCs) should be held accountable for the municipality's problems. [2]
Nothnagel was elected as an ANC councillor in the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality in 2006. From 2016 to 2021, she served as a member of the mayoral committee (MMC). [2] On her 59th birthday, Nothnagel was sworn in as a Member of Parliament for the ANC.
On 5 March 2020, the Tshwane Metro Municipality was placed under administration by the Gauteng Provincial Government and the council was consequently dissolved. A new council was supposed to be elected. [102] The DA took the matter to court. On 29 April 2020, the North Gauteng High Court overturned the decision by the provincial government. [103]
The Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality elects a municipal council for five-year periods through a mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) system in which wards elect individual councillors alongside those named from party lists. Voters get two votes: one for a representative to become a ward councillor and the other for a political party.