The ZF Mgcawu District Municipality (; ), known before 1 July 2013 as the Siyanda District Municipality, is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Upington. As of 2011, the majority (76%) of its 236,783 residents speak Afrikaans.Municipal Profiles The district code is DC8.
The ZF Mgcawu District Municipality is named after Upington's first post-1994 democratically elected mayor, Zwelentlanga Fatman Mgcawu (1958–2001). The previous name Siyanda means "we are growing".
Geography Neighbours ZF Mgcawu is surrounded by: the Republic of Botswana in the north John Taolo Gaetsewe (DC45), formerly Kgalagadi, in the north-east Frances Baard (DC9) in the east Pixley ka Seme (DC7) in the south-east Namakwa (DC6) in the south-west the Republic of Namibia in the west
Local municipalities The district contains the following local municipalities:
Local municipalityPopulation%Dominant language//Khara Hais 73 786 35.16%AfrikaansKai !Garib 57 689 27.49%AfrikaansTsantsabane 31 010 14.77%Afrikaans!Kheis 16 029 7.64%AfrikaansKgatelopele 15 448 7.36%AfrikaansMier 6 850 3.26%AfrikaansDistrict Management Area 9 083 4.33%
Demographics The following statistics are from the 2001 census.
LanguagePopulation%Afrikaans 171 371 81.65%Setswana 28 595 13.62%IsiXhosa 5 393 2.57%English 1 632 0.78%Sesotho 1 376 0.66%Other822 0.39%IsiZulu 266 0.13%Sepedi 101 0.05%IsiNdebele 99 0.05%Tshivenda 97 0.05%SiSwati 76 0.04%Xitsonga 67 0.03%
Gender GenderPopulation%Female 107 480 51.21%Male 102 403 48.79%
Ethnic group Ethnic groupPopulation%Coloured 133 711 63.71%Black African 51 353 24.47%White 24 633 11.74%Indian/Asian 186 0.09%
Age AgePopulation%000 - 004 22 038 10.50%005 - 009 21 689 10.33%010 - 014 21 341 10.17%015 - 019 21 753 10.36%020 - 024 19 101 9.10%025 - 029 18 165 8.65%030 - 034 16 403 7.82%035 - 039 14 837 7.07%040 - 044 13 001 6.19%045 - 049 10 592 5.05%050 - 054 8 409 4.01%055 - 059 6 343 3.02%060 - 064 5 504 2.62%065 - 069 4 226 2.01%070 - 074 2 720 1.30%075 - 079 1 831 0.87%080 - 084 1 164 0.55%085 - 089 512 0.24%090 - 094 209 0.10%095 - 099 33 0.02%100 plus 12 0.01%
Politics Election results Election results for Siyanda in the South African general election, 2004. Population 18 and over: 131 760 [62.78% of total population] Total votes: 75 264 [35.86% of total population] Voting % estimate: 57.12% votes as a % of population 18 and over PartyVotes%African National Congress 50 826 67.53% Independent Democrats 7 747 10.29% Democratic Alliance 6 776 9.00% New National Party 5 401 7.18% African Christian Democratic Party 1 299 1.73% Freedom Front Plus 1 269 1.69% United Democratic Movement 690 0.92% Azanian People's Organisation 372 0.49% Pan African Congress 183 0.24% United Christian Democratic Party 160 0.21% Inkhata Freedom Party 110 0.15% EMSA 66 0.09% NA 65 0.09% PJC 59 0.08% KISS 48 0.06% SOPA 45 0.06% UF 36 0.05% CDP 32 0.04% NLP 32 0.04% TOP 28 0.04% Minority Front 20 0.03% Total 75 264 100.00%
References
External links Official website