Thabo Mofutsanyana is one of the 5 districts

Districts of South Africa

South Africa is divided into 52 districts . The 12th amendment to the Constitution reduced this number from 53. Another effect of this amendment is that each district is now completely contained within a province, thus eliminating cross-border districts. The districts also cover the entire area of...

  of the Free State

Free State

The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

 province of South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. The seat of Thabo Mofutsanyana is Witsieshoek. The majority of its 725 932 people speak Sesotho (2001 Census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

). The district code is DC19

Neighbours

Thabo Mofutsanyana is surrounded by:

• Fezile Dabi
  Fezile Dabi District Municipality
  Fezile Dabi District Municipality, formerly known as Northern Free State District Municipality, is one of the 5 districts of Free State province of South Africa. The seat of Northern Free State is Sasolburg. The majority of its 460 289 people speak Sesotho...
  
   to the north (DC20)
• Gert Sibande
  Gert Sibande District Municipality
  Gert Sibande is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Secunda. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu . The district code is DC30...
  
   in Mpumalanga
  Mpumalanga
  Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
  
   to the north-east (DC30)
• Amajuba
  Amajuba District Municipality
  Amajuba is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province. The seat of Amajuba is Newcastle. The majority of its 468 040 people speak Zulu . The district code is DC25-Tourism:...
  
   in Kwa-Zulu Natal to the east (DC25)
• Uthukela
  Uthukela District Municipality
  uThukela is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The seat of uThukela is the city of Ladysmith. The majority of its 656 986 people speak IsiZulu...
  
   to the south-east(DC23)
• The kingdom of Lesotho
  Lesotho
  Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...
  
   to the south
• Motheo
  Motheo District Municipality
  Motheo was, until the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, a district of the Free State province of South Africa...
  
   to the south-west (DC17)
• Lejweleputswa
  Lejweleputswa District Municipality
  Lejweleputswa is one of the 5 districts of Free State province of South Africa. The seat of Lejweleputswa is Welkom. The majority of its 657 019 people speak Sotho...
  
   to the west (DC18)

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities

Local municipality (South Africa)

In South Africa, a local municipality or Category B municipality is a type of municipality that serves as the third, and most local, tier of local government...

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Local municipality	Population	%
Maluti a Phofung	360 780	49.70%
Dihlabeng Dihlabeng Local Municipality Dihlabeng Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District of the Free State in South Africa. It was established in terms of Section 12 of the Local Government Structures Act, 117 of 1998, after the first general local government elections of 5 December 2000 which...	128 933	17.76%
Setsoto Setsoto Local Municipality Setsoto Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District of the Free State in South Africa. The name is a Sesotho word meaning "beauty". Setsoto is headed by Ficksburg, followed by Senekal, Clocolan and Marquard. It is the getaway municipality to the Kingdom of...	123 192	16.97%
Nketoana Nketoana Local Municipality Nketoana Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District of the Free State in South Africa....	61 956	8.53%
Phumelela Phumelela Local Municipality Phumelela Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District of the Free State in South Africa. The name "Phumelela" means "to succeed" in isiZulu....	50 905	7.01%
Golden Gate Highlands National Park Golden Gate Highlands National Park Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, Republic of South Africa, near the Lesotho border. It covers an area of 340 km² . The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops, especially the Brandwag rock...	174	0.02%

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

.

Language	Population	%
Sesotho	586 022	80.73%
IsiZulu	90 584	12.48%
Afrikaans Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...	32 478	4.47%
IsiXhosa	4 848	0.67%
English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	4 805	0.66%
SiSwati	1 909	0.26%
IsiNdebele	1 549	0.21%
Setswana	1 520	0.21%
Sepedi	1 110	0.15%
Other	648	0.09%
Xitsonga	357	0.05%
Tshivenda	110	0.02%

Gender

Gender	Population	%
Female	389 210	53.62%
Male	336 722	46.38%

Ethnic group

Ethnic group	Population	%
Black African	690 852	95.17%
White	30 194	4.16%
Coloured	3 601	0.50%
Indian/Asian	1 285	0.18%

Election results

Election results for Thabo Mofutsanyana in the South African general election, 2004

South African general election, 2004

Legislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority....

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• Population 18 and over: 425 922 [58.67% of total population]
• Total votes: 260 796 [35.93% of total population]
• Voting % estimate: 61.23% votes as a % of population 18 and over

  Party	Votes	%
  African National Congress African National Congress The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...	225 688	86.54%
  Democratic Alliance	14 214	5.45%
  Pan African Congress	5 135	1.97%
  African Christian Democratic Party	2 836	1.09%
  Freedom Front Plus	2 756	1.06%
  United Democratic Movement	2 409	0.92%
  Inkhata Freedom Party Inkatha Freedom Party The Inkatha Freedom Party is a political party in South Africa. Since its founding, it has been led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. It is currently the fourth largest party in the National Assembly of South Africa.-History:...	1 978	0.76%
  New National Party	1 557	0.60%
  Independent Democrats	876	0.34%
  Azanian People's Organisation	704	0.27%
  United Christian Democratic Party	525	0.20%
  SOPA	386	0.15%
  NA	310	0.12%
  EMSA	292	0.11%
  UF	242	0.09%
  CDP	228	0.09%
  PJC	214	0.08%
  TOP	172	0.07%
  KISS	116	0.04%
  NLP	93	0.04%
  Minority Front	65	0.02%
  Total	260 796	100.00%