Maquassi Hills
| Maquassi Hills Maquassi Hills Local Municipality |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | South Africa |
| province | northwest |
| District | Dr Kenneth Kaunda |
| Seat | Wolmaransstad |
| surface | 4643 km² |
| Residents | 77,794 (October 2011) |
| density | 17 inhabitants per km² |
| key | NW404 |
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-NW |
| Website | maquassihills.co.za (English) |
| politics | |
| mayor | GV Kgabi |
| Political party | African National Congress |
Coordinates: 27 ° 15 ′ S , 26 ° 0 ′ E
Maquassi Hills ( English Maquassi Hills Local Municipality ) is a South African local municipality in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda district of the Northwest Province . The seat of the municipality is Wolmaransstad . The name, also written Makwassie and the name of another place in the municipality in this spelling, is derived from a Khoisan word for Croton gratissimus, a species of Croton .
The African National Congress (ANC) leads the community. Mayor is Vicky Kgabi (ANC).
places
population
In 2011 the community had 77,794 inhabitants. 88.7% of these were black, 8.2% white and 2.3% colored .
First language was 71.7% Setswana , 10.6% Afrikaans, 6.6% Sesotho , 4.1% IsiXhosa , 1.8% English, 1.5% isiZulu and 1.1% isiNdebele .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Edmund Raper : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Lowry Publishers, Johannesburg 1987 (2nd ed.), P. 208.
- ^ Local Government Handbook. South Africa: Maquassi Hills Local Municipality (NW404) . on www.localgovernment.co.za (English).
- ↑ portrait of Makwassie at south-africa-info.co.za (English), accessed on 9 October 2016th
- ^ Statistics South Africa : Maquassi Hills . at www.gcis.gov.za (English).