Metsweding District Municipality | |
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Coordinates: 25°48′S28°45′E / 25.800°S 28.750°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Gauteng |
Seat | Bronkhorstspruit |
Local municipalities | |
Racial makeup | |
Languages | |
Time zone | UTC+2 (South African Standard Time) |
Municipal code | DC46 |
Website | www.metsweding.com |
Metsweding District Municipality was, from 2000 until 18 May 2011, a district municipality in Gauteng province, South Africa. Metsweding, and its component local municipalities, was disestablished and absorbed into the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality on the date of the 2011 municipal election. [1]
The administrative seat of Metsweding was Bronkhorstspruit. The most spoken languages of its 159 861 people were IsiNdebele and Afrikaans (2001 Census).
Metsweding was surrounded by:
The district contained the following local municipalities, which have also been abolished:
Local municipality | Population | % |
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Kungwini | 107 320 | 67.13% |
Nokeng tsa Taemane | 52 591 | 32.90% |
The following statistics are from the 2001 census.
Language | Population | % |
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IsiNdebele | 32 146 | 20.11% |
Afrikaans | 30 757 | 19.24% |
Sepedi | 29 596 | 18.51% |
IsiZulu | 26 526 | 16.59% |
Sesotho | 9 502 | 5.94% |
Setswana | 7 428 | 4.65% |
Xitsonga | 7 178 | 4.49% |
English | 5 372 | 3.36% |
SiSwati | 4 963 | 3.10% |
IsiXhosa | 3 620 | 2.26% |
Tshivenda | 1 665 | 1.04% |
Other | 1 158 | 0.72% |
Gender | Population | % |
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Male | 83 801 | 52.42% |
Female | 76 060 | 47.58% |
Ethnic group | Population | % |
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Black African | 124 713 | 78.01% |
White | 32 943 | 20.61% |
Coloured | 1 930 | 1.21% |
Indian/Asian | 275 | 0.17% |
Age | Population | % |
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000 - 004 | 14 549 | 9.10% |
005 - 009 | 13 841 | 8.66% |
010 - 014 | 13 421 | 8.40% |
015 - 019 | 13 998 | 8.76% |
020 - 024 | 15 914 | 9.95% |
025 - 029 | 17 830 | 11.15% |
030 - 034 | 15 898 | 9.94% |
035 - 039 | 14 070 | 8.80% |
040 - 044 | 10 920 | 6.83% |
045 - 049 | 8 528 | 5.33% |
050 - 054 | 6 501 | 4.07% |
055 - 059 | 4 626 | 2.89% |
060 - 064 | 3 601 | 2.25% |
065 - 069 | 2 263 | 1.42% |
070 - 074 | 1 717 | 1.07% |
075 - 079 | 1 036 | 0.65% |
080 - 084 | 772 | 0.48% |
085 - 089 | 204 | 0.13% |
090 - 094 | 112 | 0.07% |
095 - 099 | 40 | 0.03% |
100 plus | 20 | 0.01% |
Election results for Metsweding in the South African general election, 2004.
Party | Votes | % |
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African National Congress | 44 191 | 74.36% |
Democratic Alliance | 9 985 | 16.80% |
Freedom Front Plus | 1 611 | 2.71% |
African Christian Democratic Party | 1 234 | 2.08% |
Independent Democrats | 478 | 0.80% |
United Democratic Movement | 338 | 0.57% |
Pan African Congress | 318 | 0.54% |
Inkhata Freedom Party | 311 | 0.52% |
New National Party | 270 | 0.45% |
CDP | 139 | 0.23% |
United Christian Democratic Party | 131 | 0.22% |
NA | 129 | 0.22% |
Azanian People's Organisation | 116 | 0.20% |
UF | 43 | 0.07% |
SOPA | 41 | 0.07% |
TOP | 22 | 0.04% |
PJC | 20 | 0.03% |
EMSA | 18 | 0.03% |
Minority Front | 18 | 0.03% |
KISS | 9 | 0.02% |
NLP | 4 | 0.01% |
Total | 59 426 | 100.00% |
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