Nkangala District Municipality

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Nkangala is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Nkangala is Middleburg. The majority of its 1 020 592 people speak IsiNdebele (2001 Census). The district code is DC31.

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Neighbours

Nkangala is surrounded by:

[edit] Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:


Local municipality Population %
Emalahleni 276 414 27.08%
Thembisile 258 878 25.37%
Dr JS Moroka 243 308 23.84%
Middelburg 142 777 13.99%
Delmas 56 205 5.51%
Highlands 43 008 4.21%
Mdala Nature Reserve 0 0.00%

[edit] Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.


Language Population %
IsiNdebele 319 920 31.35%
IsiZulu 232 228 22.75%
Sepedi 161 338 15.81%
Afrikaans 75 294 7.38%
SiSwati 56 496 5.54%
Setswana 56 144 5.50%
Sesotho 42 474 4.16%
Xitsonga 31 624 3.10%
IsiXhosa 21 199 2.08%
English 17 705 1.73%
Other 3 514 0.34%
Tshivenda 2 654 0.26%

[edit] Gender

Gender Population %
Female 529 354 51.87%
Male 491 238 48.13%

[edit] Ethnic group

Ethnic group Population %
Black African 930 873 91.21%
White 78 292 7.67%
Coloured 8 741 0.86%
Indian/Asian 2 686 0.26%

[edit] Age

Age Population %
000 - 004 108 087 10.59%
005 - 009 114 037 11.17%
010 - 014 118 590 11.62%
015 - 019 118 041 11.57%
020 - 024 98 429 9.64%
025 - 029 88 106 8.63%
030 - 034 74 084 7.26%
035 - 039 69 442 6.80%
040 - 044 58 251 5.71%
045 - 049 47 903 4.69%
050 - 054 35 359 3.46%
055 - 059 25 013 2.45%
060 - 064 20 550 2.01%
065 - 069 14 314 1.40%
070 - 074 12 782 1.25%
075 - 079 7 302 0.72%
080 - 084 6 344 0.62%
085 - 089 2 273 0.22%
090 - 094 1 080 0.11%
095 - 099 420 0.04%
100 plus 185 0.02%

[edit] Politics

[edit] Election results

Election results for Nkangala in the South African general election, 2004.

  • Population 18 and over: 608 871 [59.66% of total population]
  • Total votes: 389 097 [38.12% of total population]
  • Voting % estimate: 63.90% votes as a % of population 18 and over
Party Votes %
African National Congress 333 520 85.72%
Democratic Alliance 30 234 7.77%
United Democratic Movement 4 188 1.08%
Freedom Front Plus 3 997 1.03%
Pan African Congress 3 704 0.95%
African Christian Democratic Party 3 654 0.94%
Inkhata Freedom Party 2 431 0.62%
New National Party 1 833 0.47%
Independent Democrats 1 710 0.44%
United Christian Democratic Party 969 0.25%
Azanian People's Organisation 819 0.21%
SOPA 381 0.10%
NA 272 0.07%
EMSA 270 0.07%
UF 242 0.06%
CDP 226 0.06%
PJC 222 0.06%
TOP 131 0.03%
Minority Front 112 0.03%
NLP 92 0.02%
KISS 90 0.02%
Total 389 097 100.00%


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