Mafube Municipality (Frankfort) | JJ Hadebe St, Frankfort 9830, Free State

Mafube Municipality is part of the Riemland region. The name Rieland, comes from the fact that, when first settled, the area was home to huge herds of game and the locals earned a reputations for curing and making leather; a riem being a strip of leather. Translated the word Mafube means: Just before sunrise - where the sun rises.