Zululand District Municipality
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Zululand is one of the 11 district municipalities
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...

 ("districts") of KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 province. The seat of Zululand is Ulundi. The majority of its 804,456 people speak IsiZulu (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 DC26. It is part of a larger historical area also known as Zululand.

Neighbours

Zululand is surrounded by:
  • 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:...

     to the north-west (DC25)
  • 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 (DC30)
  • The kingdom of Swaziland
    Swaziland
    Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...

     to the north
  • Umkhanyakude
    Umkhanyakude District Municipality
    Umkhanyakude, named after the famous yellow-barked fever tree, literally meaning “seen from afar”, is the northernmost district in KwaZulu-Natal and contains many areas of outstanding natural beauty such as the St Lucia greater wetland park, Sodwana Bay and Kosi Bay. Game parks include...

     to the east (DC27)
  • Umzinyathi
    Umzinyathi District Municipality
    Umzinyathi is one of the 11 district municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The seat of Umzinyathi is Dundee. The majority of its 456 452 people speak IsiZulu...

     to the south-west (DC24)
  • uThungulu
    UThungulu District Municipality
    Uthungulu is one of the 11 district municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The seat of uThungulu is Richards Bay. The majority of its 885 944 people speak Zulu...

     to the south (DC28)

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 %
Ulundi
Ulundi Local Municipality
Ulundi Local Municipality is a local municipality located on the southern boundary of the Zululand District Municipality in northeastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa...

 
212 972 26.47%
Nongoma
Nongoma Local Municipality
Nongoma Local Municipality is a local municipality in the northeastern part of Zululand in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is Zululand’s second largest municipality in terms of population and the second largest in terms of area. It shares its name with the town of Nongoma, which...

 
198 447 24.67%
Abaqulusi
Abaqulusi Local Municipality
AbaQulusi Local Municipality is a local municipality in Zululand in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.-Towns and settlements:63% of the population of the AbaQulusi municipal area live in rural areas, most of which live in scattered homesteads known as imizi in tribal areas. Homesteads are...

 
191 020 23.75%
uPhongolo
UPhongolo Local Municipality
uPhongolo Local Municipality, is a local municipality in the northern area of Zululand, in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.In 2007, the uPhongolo Municipality contained 154 rural shops, 124 schools, 27 hotels, resorts or conference facilities, 15 clinics, 12 recreational facilities, 6...

 
119 786 14.89%
eDumbe
EDumbe Local Municipality
eDumbe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Zululand District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The municipality is named after the Dumbe mountain....

 
82 241 10.22%

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 %
IsiZulu  779 206 96.86%
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...

 
11 382 1.41%
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...

 
5 246 0.65%
Sesotho  2 297 0.29%
IsiNdebele  1 684 0.21%
IsiXhosa  1 130 0.14%
Sepedi  980 0.12%
SiSwati  946 0.12%
Other  916 0.11%
Setswana  409 0.05%
Xitsonga  142 0.02%
Tshivenda  128 0.02%

Gender

Gender Population %
Female 434 244 53.98%
Male 370 212 46.02%

Ethnic group

Ethnic group Population %
Black African 788 551 98.02%
White 13 769 1.71%
Coloured 1 521 0.19%
Indian/Asian 615 0.08%

Age

Age Population %
000 - 004 103 541 12.87%
005 - 009 116 193 14.44%
010 - 014 119 925 14.91%
015 - 019 111 383 13.85%
020 - 024 69 637 8.66%
025 - 029 50 739 6.31%
030 - 034 40 514 5.04%
035 - 039 38 739 4.82%
040 - 044 33 628 4.18%
045 - 049 27 697 3.44%
050 - 054 21 735 2.70%
055 - 059 16 125 2.00%
060 - 064 16 825 2.09%
065 - 069 12 309 1.53%
070 - 074 11 606 1.44%
075 - 079 6 390 0.79%
080 - 084 4 962 0.62%
085 - 089 1 300 0.16%
090 - 094 647 0.08%
095 - 099 440 0.05%
100 plus 121 0.02%

Election results

Election results for Zululand 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: 394 233 [49.01% of total population]
  • Total votes: 218 270 [27.13% of total population]
  • Voting % estimate: 55.37% votes as a % of population 18 and over
    Party Votes %
    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:...

     
    169 028 77.44%
    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...

     
    32 688 14.98%
    Democratic Alliance   8 831 4.05%
    African Christian Democratic Party  2 379 1.09%
    United Democratic Movement   1 025 0.47%
    Freedom Front Plus   845 0.39%
    New National Party   531 0.24%
    Independent Democrats   483 0.22%
    Azanian People's Organisation  365 0.17%
    Pan African Congress  231 0.11%
    Keep It Straight and Simple Party   220 0.10%
    United Christian Democratic Party  220 0.10%
    PJC   210 0.10%
    Socialist Party of Azania   188 0.09%
    Christian Democratic Party
    Christian Democratic Party (South Africa)
    The Christian Democratic Party is a Christian social conservative party in South Africa. The party was registered on 9 September 1999 and was formally launched a year later...

     
    169 0.08%
    TOP   167 0.08%
    NA   160 0.07%
    EMSA   155 0.07%
    Minority Front  152 0.07%
    UF   141 0.06%
    New Labour Party
    New Labour Party (South Africa)
    The New Labour Party was a minor South African political party founded by Peter Marais via floor crossing legislation after he left the New National Party in some disrepute. The name was chosen to evoke the former Labour Party led by the late Reverend Allan Hendrickse as an anti-apartheid Coloured...

    82 0.04%
    Total 218 270 100.00%

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