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The Mangaung Metro Municipality in the Free State is set to lose over R200 million of allocated conditional grants to the National Treasury.It’s said that the metro failed to utilise the mon...

Mangaung opposition parties are fuming after they were allegedly left out of a much anticipated planned meeting with the Minister of Cooperative Governance (Cogta)  on Wednesday (25/10).<p...

After stealing control of the Speaker position in Mangaung in March, riding on internal ANC divisions, the DA's victory this week

Opposition parties in Mangaung Metro have slammed the ANC for what they term an absolute abuse of majority power.On Wednesday (20/9), the ANC and its coalition partners, including the Africa...

The DA has threatened with court action following the removal of Maryke Davies as speaker of the Mangaung Metro on Wednesday (20/9).DA Caucus Leader Johan Pretorius told OFM News the motion ...

On two previous occasions this month, the council failed to meet the quorum after opposition party members boycotted the sitting. ...

On Thursday 1 June 2023, Acting Judge Sharon Chisiwe confirmed her interim order which she delivered on 20 April 2023. The 20 April order temporarily barred the Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats...

Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality acting mayor Gregory Nthatisi, whose mayoral prospects are precarious as a result of political instability in the city, took the bold decision to appoint a team of 10 men and women to help him stabilise the municipality.

When newly elected Mangaung mayor Papi Mokoena was scheduled to announce members of his mayoral committee, the ANC in the Free State successfully interdicted him from occupying the higher office.

He was elected unopposed. Some ANC members, including the mayoral candidate Gregory Nthatisi, boycotted the council sitting on Friday 14 April 2023. <a href="https://www.ofm...