Ngwathe Local Municipality
Ngwathe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Fezile Dabi District of the Free State in South Africa. "Ngwathe" is the Sesotho name for the Renoster River.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Edenville | 9.25 | 896 | Sotho | |
| Heilbron | 26.47 | 9,652 | Sotho | |
| Koppies | 114.90 | 967 | Afrikaans | |
| Kwakwatsi | 1.81 | 7,830 | Sotho | |
| Mokwallo | 1.87 | 8,637 | Sotho | |
| Ngwathe | 0.88 | 5,294 | Sotho | |
| Parys | 17.28 | 10,716 | Afrikaans | |
| Phiritona | 3.10 | 15,874 | Sotho | |
| Tumahole | 23.21 | 33,084 | Sotho | |
| Vredefort | 19.77 | 3,053 | Sotho | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 6,860.55 | 22,811 | Sotho |
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-six members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eighteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eighteen wards, while the remaining eighteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of twenty-four seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.