Dipaleseng
| Dipaleseng Dipaleseng Local Municipality |
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| Country | South Africa | |
| province | Mpumalanga | |
| District | Gert Sibande | |
| Seat | Balfour | |
| surface | 2616 km² | |
| Residents | 42,390 (October 2011) | |
| density | 16 inhabitants per km² | |
| key | MP306 | |
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-MP | |
| Website | www.dipaleseng.gov.za (English) | |
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| mayor | Mafunda Makhubu | |
Coordinates: 26 ° 39 ′ S , 28 ° 35 ′ E
Dipaleseng is a municipality in the Gert Sibande district , Mpumalanga province in South Africa with its seat in Balfour . Mafunda L. Makhubu is the mayor.
The community is named after the Sesotho word for place of flowers . It has an area of 2616 square kilometers.
The population increased in five years from 42,390 (2011 census) to 45,232 (2016).
Localities
- Balfour
- Greylingstad
- Grootvlei .
population
In 2011 the community had 42,390 inhabitants. Of these, 89.8% were black and 8.6% were white.
| language | Residents | % |
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| isiZulu | 23,581 | 56.13% |
| Sesotho | 10.166 | 24.20% |
| Afrikaans | 3,778 | 8.99% |
| English | 1,260 | 3.00% |
| isiXhosa | 1.006 | 2.39% |
| isiNdebele | 467 | 1.11% |
| Sepedi | 420 | 1.00% |
| Setswana | 419 | 1.00% |
| Others | 262 | 0.62% |
| Siswati | 212 | 0.50% |
| Sign language | 196 | 0.47% |
| Xitsonga | 174 | 0.41% |
| Tshivenda | 68 | 0.16% |
| unknown | 382 |
Web links
- Official website (English) - redirects to the wrong page
- Official map (PDF file; 273 kB)
- Portrait at localgovernment.co.za (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Community names of South Africa
- ↑ Administrative boundaries of South Africa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.localgovernment.co.za: Dipaleseng Local Municipality (MP306): Demographic
- ↑ Stats SA: Community Survey 2016 (accessed September 17, 2017)
- ↑ http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=993&id=dipaleseng-municipality
- ↑ Dipaleseng Local Municipality Local Municipality 865 from Census 2011
