Masilonyana Local Municipality


Masilonyana Municipality is a local municipality within the Lejweleputswa District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa. Masilonyana is a Setswana word meaning "freedom".

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Brandfort27.083,134Afrikaans
Ikgomotseng1.143,253Tswana
Majemasweu2.799,765Sotho
Makeleketla3.6912,701Sotho
Masilo4.7021,963Sotho
Theunissen9.151,549Afrikaans
Tshepong0.612,042Sotho
Verkeerdevlei7.2793Afrikaans
Winburg63.461,373Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality6,676.187,461Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of nineteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Ten councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in ten 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 won a majority of eleven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

Financial mismanagement

In January 2025, the municipality was listed as one of the top ten municipalities in arrears on their pension contributions.