The Alfred Nzo District Municipality () is one of the 6 districts of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat is Mount Ayliff. The majority of its 801,344 residents speak isiXhosa. 2011 Census The district code is DC44.

It is named after Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo, a former secretary-general of the African National Congress and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Nelson Mandela's cabinet from 1994 to 1999.

Geography The Alfred Nzo District Municipality contains the following towns: Mount Frere, Mount Ayliff, Maloti, Matatiele, Bizana and Tabankulu. It is the smallest and one of the poorest districts in the province.

Neighbours Alfred Nzo is surrounded by: The kingdom of Lesotho to the north Harry Gwala District (DC43) to the north-east Ugu District (DC21) to the east OR Tambo District (DC15) to the south Joe Gqabi District (DC14) to the west

Local municipalities The district contains the following local municipalities:

Local municipalityPopulation%Matatiele 203,843 25.44%Ntabankulu 123,976 15.47%Umzimvubu 191,620 23.91%Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 281,905 35.18%

After the 2011 municipal election, Alfred Nzo District was expanded by including Mbizana Local Municipality and Ntabankulu Local Municipality, previously part of OR Tambo District Municipality.

The district is a focus area for the Umzimvubu Catchment Partnership Programme, in which Conservation South Africa participates as part of catchment-restoration work including invasive alien plant clearing and grazing-land restoration.

Demographics The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

Languages LanguagePopulation%Xhosa 673,519 84.58%Sotho 69,811 8.77%English 18,090 2.27%Zulu 9,954 1.25%Sign language 7,189 0.90%Afrikaans 6,716 0.84%Other4,595 0.58%Northern Sotho 2,275 0.29%Ndebele 2,043 0.26%Tswana 1,360 0.17%Venda 358 0.04%Tsonga 231 0.03%Swati 187 0.02%

Gender GenderPopulation%Female 434,857 54.27%Male 366,488 45.73%

Ethnic group Ethnic groupPopulation%Black African 794,382 99.13%Coloured 3,307 0.41%White 1,898 0.24%Indian/Asian 1,132 0.14%Other 624 0.08%

Age AgePopulation%000–004 68,152 12.38%005–009 85,022 15.45%010–014 89,083 16.19%015–019 73,875 13.42%020–024 41,503 7.54%025–029 28,489 5.18%030–034 23,459 4.26%035–039 23,401 4.25%040–044 21,729 3.95%045–049 18,478 3.36%050–054 15,872 2.88%055–059 13,475 2.45%060–064 13,398 2.43%065–069 13,266 2.41%070–074 9,980 1.81%075–079 5,540 1.01%080–084 4,009 0.73%085–089 1,008 30.0%090–094 420 0.08%095–099 195 0.04%100 plus 38 0.01%

Politics

Election results Election results for Alfred Nzo in the South African general election, 2004. Population 18 and over: 260 501 [70% of total population] Total votes: 172 001 [31.25% of total population] Voting % estimate: 66.03% votes as a % of population 18 and over PartyVotes%African National Congress 151,605 88.14%United Democratic Movement 14,449 8.40%Inkhata Freedom Party 1,803 1.05%Pan African Congress 802 0.47%African Christian Democratic Party 683 0.40%Democratic Alliance 533 0.31%SOPA 340 0.20%Azanian People's Organisation 258 0.15%New National Party 201 0.12%United Christian Democratic Party 200 0.12%EMSA 191 0.11%Freedom Front Plus 190 0.11%PJC 129 0.07%NA 125 0.07%UF 103 0.06%TOP 98 0.06%Independent Democrats 93 0.05%CDP 65 0.04%KISS 48 0.03%Minority Front 48 0.03%NLP 37 0.02%Total 172,001 100.00%

References

External links Official website