Greater Taung
| Greater Taung Greater Taung Local Municipality |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | South Africa |
| province | northwest |
| District | Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati |
| Seat | Taung |
| surface | 5635 km² |
| Residents | 177,642 (October 2011) |
| density | 32 inhabitants per km² |
| key | NW394 |
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-NW |
| Website | www.gtlm.gov.za (English) |
| politics | |
| mayor | Chief Nyoko Motlhabane |
Coordinates: 27 ° 32 ' S , 24 ° 47' E
Greater Taung ( English Greater Taung Local Municipality ) is a local municipality in the district Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality of the province of North West in South Africa .
The community name comes from the Setswana and literally means "place of the lion ", more precisely: "place of the traditional head Tau" of the Barolong tribe .
Localities
population
In 2011 the community had 177,642 inhabitants. 98.2% of these were black and 1% colored .
89.9% of the first language was Setswana, 1.7% isiXhosa , 1.5% each was English and Sesotho , 1.3% Afrikaans and 0.7% isiZulu .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality
- Local Government Handbook . South Africa: Greater Taung Local Municipality (NW394) . at www.localgovernment.co.za , accessed July 7, 2020
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Edmund Raper : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Lowry Publishers, Johannesburg 1987 (2nd ed.), P. 313.
- ↑ 2011 census: Greater Taung . accessed on July 10, 2020.
- ^ Statistics South Africa : Greater Tauung . on www.statssa.gov.za (English)