According to the latest Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) statistics for the Free State, the ANC has won the battle in the Kopanong Municipality after the IEC confirmed the municipality has completed the vote counts in that area. This, despite the ongoing financial crisis currently besieging the municipality. Other issues include service delivery inadequacies. The ANC victoriously secured 66,04% of the municipality’s votes, followed by the DA who managed to secure 16,47% of all votes, with the EFF locking in third place with 10,05% of the votes.

Kopanong municipal spokesperson, Solomzi Phama, tells OFM News that workers must yet be paid. He also confirmed that the municipal manager is working around the clock to sort out issues pertaining to Kopanong municipal workers’ salaries. They have not been paid for the past two months and counting.

Prior to elections, OFM News reported that the municipality has been plunged into financial distress with its bank account attached for failing to pay workers' pension funds since 2012. This has since led to workers not receiving their monies in nearly two months. Meanwhile, the ANC’s Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) spokesperson, Oupa Khoabane, had previously told OFM News that the matter has since been handed over to the legislative committee to scrutinise and deal with.

OFM News/Kekeletso Mosebetsi and Lee Simmons