Letsemeng Local Municipality


Letsemeng Municipality is a local municipality within the Xhariep District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Boitumelong0.24330Afrikaans
Bolokanang0.926,343Tswana
Diamant Hoogte0.111,208Afrikaans
Ditlhake2.218,727Afrikaans
Jacobsdal2.251,709Afrikaans
Koffiefontein33.791,443Afrikaans
Luckhoff30.382,388Afrikaans
Oppermans0.261,167Afrikaans
Petrusburg1.99588Afrikaans
Ratanang0.624,852Afrikaans
Relebohile0.15671Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality10,155.0013,533Afrikaans

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining six 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 won a majority of nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

Corruption

In August 2025, the ANC Provincial Executive Committee resolved to fire all its leaders in the underperforming local municipalities to address governance failures, corruption, and service delivery challenges ahead of the 2026 local elections. Letsemeng was one of those municipalities affected after years of wasteful expenditures and irregular expenses.