[3] Towards the end of her five-year mayoral term, in March 2016, the municipality was wracked with violent service delivery protests in which protesters called for her to resign as mayor.
At least 22 people were arrested on public violence charges; several structures were set alight, including houses belonging to a councillor and to one of Monyamane's relatives; and one person was reportedly fatally shot.
[4][5] In the 2016 local elections later that year, the ANC lost the mayoral seat in the municipality (newly amalgamated as Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality) to the opposition Democratic Alliance and Monyamane was succeeded as mayor by Marlene van Staden,[6] though she remained an ordinary local councillor.
[8] Monyamane was also a prominent member of the ANC's regional branch in Waterberg.
[11] However, when the conference took place in July 2022, she did not stand for the chairmanship and she was succeeded as Deputy Regional Secretary by Aaron Mokgehle.