Gert Sibande (District)
| Gert Sibande Gert Sibande District Municipality |
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| Country | South Africa | |
| province | Mpumalanga | |
| Seat | Secunda | |
| surface | 31,841 km² | |
| Residents | 1,043,194 (October 2011) | |
| density | 33 inhabitants per km² | |
| key | DC30 | |
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-MP | |
| Website | www.gsibande.gov.za (English) | |
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| mayor | Muzi Chirwa | |
Coordinates: 26 ° 33 ′ S , 29 ° 10 ′ E
Gert Sibande is a district within the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa . It has 1,043,194 inhabitants (as of October 2011) on a total area of 31,841 km². The district administration is based in Secunda . The district is named after the politician Gert Sibande .
Communities and infrastructure
The infrastructure is very different between the urban and more rural communities, as an example here the water supply of the households (HWA = own domestic water connection; ÖWA = public water connection in the vicinity; KWA = no connection to a water supply network):
| local community | Administrative headquarters | surface | Residents | HWA | Ö WA | KWA |
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| Albert Luthuli | Carolina | 5,559 km² | 187.935 | 47% | 33% | 20% |
| Dipaleseng | Balfour | 2,616 km² | 38,611 | 96% | 4% | |
| Govan Mbeki | Secunda | 2,955 km² | 221,739 | 81% | 18% | 1 % |
| Lekwa | Standerton | 4,585 km² | 103.264 | 81% | 19% | |
| Mkhondo | Piet Retief | 4,882 km² | 142,878 | 38% | 36% | 26% |
| Msukaligwa | Ermelo | 6,016 km² | 124,807 | 94% | 2% | 5% |
| Pixley Ka Seme | Volksrust | 5,227 km² | 80,728 | 52% | 38% | 10% |
Demographic data
Data status 2001, census .
| language | Residents | % |
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| IsiZulu | 544,669 | 60.52% |
| Siswati | 158,629 | 17.63% |
| Afrikaans | 70.229 | 7.80% |
| Sesotho | 45,822 | 5.09% |
| IsiNdebele | 23,988 | 2.67% |
| IsiXhosa | 21,047 | 2.34% |
| English | 14,505 | 1.61% |
| Sepedi | 7,746 | 0.86% |
| Xitsonga | 6.339 | 0.70% |
| Setswana | 3,530 | 0.39% |
| Others | 2,337 | 0.26% |
| Tshivenda | 1,126 | 0.13% |
Age structure of the district population
| Age | number | proportion of |
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| 0-19 | 423,896 | 47.10% |
| 20-39 | 276,537 | 30.73% |
| 40-59 | 143.497 | 15.95% |
| ≥60 | 56.015 | 6.22% |
Parks and nature reserves
- Standerskop Nature Reserve
Web links
- Portrait at localgovernment.co.za (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Census 2011. Basic Results. (PDF; 349 kB) Statistics South Africa , accessed on November 27, 2015 (English).
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- ↑ Meaning of the name municipalities
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