The name is a Sesotho word meaning “dawning of the new day”.
Vision
A viable, developed and sustainable municipality
Mission
To provide effective, transparent governance and ensure efficient, affordable, and sustainable service delivery and to promote integrated development and economic growth.
Core Values
Transparency
We practice good corporate governance, openness and strive to understand the needs of our community at all times.
Commitment
We are dedicated to the services we render to the community. We are committed to realise the objective of local government in South Africa.
Accountability
We respect and value our people and ensure that we are accountable and responsible on all aspects of our work.
Integrity
We perform our work diligently with integrity and courage to ensure that our communities are able to trust and believe in us.
Democracy
We encourage the adherence to the constitution of the country, by allowing everybody to exercise their rights.
About Mafube Towns
History
Frankfort is situated 55km east of Heilbron and approximately 120km south east of Sasolburg. The R34 provincial road from Kroonstad to the Natal Province extends adjacent to the town. The Wilge River stretches adjacent to the town from south to the Vaal Dam in the north.
History
The town was originally laid out on the farm Roodepoort and named Frankfurt after the German town by Albert van Gordon in 1869. In 1896, the town received municipality status & is now the capital town to Villiers, Cornelia & Tweeling; better known as the Mafube Municipality. An interesting cultural site is the old clock in the facade of the Dutch Reformed Church, which survived when the church was burnt down by the British troops during the Anglo-Boer War in 1901. After the war it was rebuilt & inaugurated in 1918.
Economic profile
The town remains the growth point in Mafube and plays a major role in the terms of a regional service provider and industrial and commercial development. Frankfort is a typically developed small town, serving the predominant surrounding agricultural community. The town lies in the heart of the country’s maize growing area. Other farming that takes place in the area includes dairy, beef, wool and mutton. The town does provide certain industrial growth potential. The industrial growth potential is mainly agricultural orientated. A dairy industry of regional importance is located in the town.
Cornelia / Ntswanatsatsi
Location
The Greater Cornelia is situated 40km east of Frankfort, 160km east of Sasolburg and 32km south east of Villiers. The town is situated adjacent the R103 secondary road between Warden and Villiers.
History
Cornelia is renowned for the fossil discoveries of pre-historic creatures found in 1955 which are presently still being safe-guared in the National Museum in Bloemfontein.
