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Northern Free State

The Fezile Dabi District Municipality (Sotho: Masepala wa Setereke wa Fezile Dabi; Afrikaans: Fezile Dabi-distriktsmunisipaliteit), formerly known as the Northern Free State District Municipality, is one of the 5 districts of the Free State province of South Africa. The seat is Sasolburg. As of 2011, a majority of its 460,289 residents spoke Sesotho. The district code is DC20.

Geography

Neighbours

Northern Free State is surrounded by:

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:

Local municipality Population % Dominant language
Moqhaka 167 886 36.47% Sotho
Ngwathe 118 820 25.81% Sotho
Metsimaholo 115 964 25.19% Sotho
Mafube 57 637 12.52% Sotho

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.

Language Population %
Sesotho 312 962 67.99%
Afrikaans 62 430 13.56%
IsiXhosa 34 888 7.58%
IsiZulu 31 229 6.78%
Setswana 6 121 1.33%
English 4 749 1.03%
Sepedi 2 628 0.57%
SiSwati 1 537 0.33%
IsiNdebele 1 243 0.27%
Xitsonga 1 241 0.27%
Other 757 0.16%
Tshivenda 522 0.11%

Sex

Gender Population %
Female 233 921 50.82%
Male 226 368 49.18%

Ethnic group

Ethnic group Population %
Black African 394 519 85.71%
White 56 094 12.19%
Coloured 9 174 1.99%
Indian/Asian 502 0.11%

Age

Age Population %
000 - 004 41 558 9.03%
005 - 009 43 971 9.55%
010 - 014 49 984 10.86%
015 - 019 51 062 11.09%
020 - 024 42 606 9.26%
025 - 029 39 124 8.50%
030 - 034 34 867 7.58%
035 - 039 32 496 7.06%
040 - 044 28 301 6.15%
045 - 049 24 171 5.25%
050 - 054 19 601 4.26%
055 - 059 14 915 3.24%
060 - 064 12 049 2.62%
065 - 069 9 577 2.08%
070 - 074 7 059 1.53%
075 - 079 4 119 0.89%
080 - 084 2 922 0.63%
085 - 089 1 249 0.27%
090 - 094 469 0.10%
095 - 099 132 0.03%
100 plus 57 0.01%

Politics

Election results

Election results for Northern Free State in the South African general election, 2004.

  • Population 18 and over: 293 994 [63.87% of total population]
  • Total votes: 182 833 [39.72% of total population]
  • Voting % estimate: 62.19% votes as a % of population 18 and over
Party Votes %
African National Congress 146 691 80.23%
Democratic Alliance 20 395 11.15%
Freedom Front Plus 4 210 2.30%
United Democratic Movement 2 326 1.27%
African Christian Democratic Party 2 265 1.24%
New National Party 1 511 0.83%
Pan African Congress 1 449 0.79%
Independent Democrats 1 097 0.60%
Azanian People's Organisation 894 0.49%
Inkhata Freedom Party 749 0.41%
United Christian Democratic Party 301 0.16%
SOPA 203 0.11%
NA 167 0.09%
CDP 126 0.07%
EMSA 109 0.06%
PJC 94 0.05%
UF 84 0.05%
TOP 60 0.03%
KISS 35 0.02%
NLP 34 0.02%
Minority Front 33 0.02%
Total 182 833 100.00%

References

  1. ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.