Waterberg (District)
Waterberg Waterberg District Municipality |
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Motto "For Prosperity And Stability" 'For Prosperity and Stability' |
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Country | South Africa | |
province | Limpopo | |
Seat | Modimolle | |
surface | 44,913 km² | |
Residents | 679,336 (October 2011) | |
density | 15 inhabitants per km² | |
key | DC36 | |
ISO 3166-2 | ZA-LP | |
Website | www.waterberg.gov.za (English) | |
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mayor | SM Mataboge |
Coordinates: 24 ° 42 ′ S , 28 ° 24 ′ E
Waterberg is a district within Limpopo Province in South Africa . 679,336 inhabitants live in an area of 44,913 km² (as of October 2011). The seat of the district administration is Modimolle .
The district is named after the Waterberg Mountains .
Municipalities ( Local Municipalities )
- Bela-Bela
- Lephalals
- Mogalakwena
- Modimolle-Mookgophong (created in 2016 from the union of Mookgophong and Modimolle )
- Thabazimbi
National parks and nature reserves
- Marakele National Park
- Nylsvlei Nature Reserve 3,100 ha, 20 km south of Mookgophong
- Lapalala Nature Reserve
- Waterberg Biosphere Reserve , about 15,000 km²
Demographic data
Data status 2001, census .
language | Residents | % |
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Sepedi | 357.106 | 58.15% |
Setswana | 75,745 | 12.33% |
Xitsonga | 57,516 | 9.37% |
Afrikaans | 52,375 | 8.53% |
isiNdebele | 29,724 | 4.84% |
Sesotho | 11,746 | 1.91% |
isiXhosa | 10,077 | 1.64% |
English | 5,842 | 0.95% |
Tshivenda | 4,442 | 0.72% |
isiZulu | 2,968 | 0.48% |
Siswati | 1,785 | 0.29% |
other | 4,796 | 0.78% |
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).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Meaning of the name municipalities
- ↑ Municipal statistics 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.