Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality
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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...

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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%
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