The John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality (; ), formerly the Kgalagadi District Municipality, is one of the five districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of the authority is Kuruman. As of 2011, the majority of its 176,899 residents speak Setswana. The district code is DC45. It was named after a trade unionist John Taolo Gaetsewe (1916-1988).

Geography Neighbours John Taolo Gaetsewe is surrounded by: Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati (DC39) to the north-east Frances Baard (DC9) to the south ZF Mgcawu (DC8) to the south-west the Republic of Botswana in the north-west

Local municipalities The district contains the following local municipalities:

Local municipalityPopulation%Dominant languageJoe Morolong (formerly Moshaweng) 84 099 47.54%TswanaGa-Segonyana 70 390 39.79%TswanaGamagara 16 175 9.14%AfrikaansKalahari 6 231 3.52%

Demographics The following statistics are from the 2001 census.

LanguagePopulation%Setswana 151 654 85.73%Afrikaans 20 401 11.53%IsiXhosa 1 575 0.89%Sesotho 737 0.42%English 735 0.42%Other447 0.25%Sepedi 429 0.24%IsiZulu 353 0.20%SiSwati 183 0.10%IsiNdebele 167 0.09%Xitsonga 151 0.09%Tshivenda 63 0.04%

Gender GenderPopulation%Female 92 689 52.40%Male 84 210 47.60%

Ethnic group Ethnic groupPopulation%Black African 157 091 88.80%Coloured 10 358 5.86%White 9 352 5.29%Indian/Asian 98 0.06%

Age AgePopulation%000 - 004 20 967 11.85%005 - 009 22 647 12.80%010 - 014 23 651 13.37%015 - 019 20 824 11.77%020 - 024 15 475 8.75%025 - 029 12 234 6.92%030 - 034 10 885 6.15%035 - 039 10 267 5.80%040 - 044 9 643 5.45%045 - 049 7 655 4.33%050 - 054 5 883 3.33%055 - 059 4 649 2.63%060 - 064 3 726 2.11%065 - 069 3 133 1.77%070 - 074 2 235 1.26%075 - 079 1 431 0.81%080 - 084 964 0.54%085 - 089 379 0.21%090 - 094 165 0.09%095 - 099 63 0.04%100 plus 23 0.01%

Politics Election results Election results for the district (under its former name, Kgalagadi) in the South African general election, 2004. Population 18 and over: 96 783 [54.71% of total population] Total votes: 65 198 [36.86% of total population] Voting % estimate: 67.37% votes as a % of population 18 and over PartyVotes%African National Congress 51 456 78.92% United Christian Democratic Party 6 763 10.37% Democratic Alliance 2 687 4.12% Independent Democrats 1 084 1.66% African Christian Democratic Party 790 1.21% New National Party 690 1.06% Freedom Front Plus 585 0.90% Pan African Congress 267 0.41% Azanian People's Organisation 212 0.33% United Democratic Movement 161 0.25% Inkhata Freedom Party 97 0.15% EMSA 81 0.12% NA 57 0.09% CDP 57 0.09% SOPA 54 0.08% PJC 40 0.06% TOP 36 0.06% UF 35 0.05% NLP 17 0.03% Minority Front 15 0.02% KISS 14 0.02% Total 65 198 100.00%

References

External links Official website