Nketoana Local Municipality

Nketoana
Nketoana
Local municipality
	Official seal of Nketoana Seal
	Location in the Free State
Country	South Africa
Province	Free State
District	Thabo Mofutsanyane
Seat	Reitz
Wards	9
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Mamiki Mokoena
Area
• Total	5,611 km2 (2,166 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	60,324
• Density	11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	91.4%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• White	7.8%
First languages (2011)
• Sotho	75.9%
• Zulu	10.7%
• Afrikaans	8.7%
• Sign language	1.7%
• Other	3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	FS193

Nketoana Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District of the Free State in South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[4]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population	Most spoken language
Arlington	41401	5.51	222	Sotho
Cremona	41402	0.46	2,021	Sotho
Leratswana	41403	0.82	3,429	Sotho
Lindley	41404	21.07	1,621	Afrikaans
Mamafubedu	41405	1.38	8,121	Sotho
Ntha	41407	2.16	8,500	Sotho
Petrus Steyn	41408	9.74	1,163	Afrikaans
Petsana	41409	2.76	13,670	Sotho
Reitz	41410	6.51	1,781	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	41406	5,560.92	21,423	Sotho

The municipal council consists of eighteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining nine are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the 2021 South African municipal elections the African National Congress (ANC) won a reduced majority of ten seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[5]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	6,469	49.26	8	7,148	54.72	2	10
	Democratic Alliance	1,613	12.28	1	1,695	12.98	2	3
	Economic Freedom Fighters	1,501	11.43	0	1,698	13.00	2	2
	Freedom Front Plus	1,039	7.91	0	1,029	7.88	2	2
	Independent candidates	1,887	14.37	0				0
	All Unemployment Labour Alliance				676	5.18	1	1
	African Transformation Movement	217	1.65	0	249	1.91	0	0
	Forum for Service Delivery	222	1.69	0	234	1.79	0	0
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	98	0.75	0	109	0.83	0	0
	Agency for New Agenda	31	0.24	0	135	1.03	0	0
	African People's Convention	56	0.43	0	89	0.68	0	0
Total		13,133	100.00	9	13,062	100.00	9	18

Valid votes		13,133	98.01		13,062	97.49
Invalid/blank votes		267	1.99		336	2.51
Total votes		13,400	100.00		13,398	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		28,691	46.70		28,691	46.70

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Nketoana". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-20.