Southern District Municipality

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Southern is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Southern is Klerksdorp. The majority of its 599 674 people speak Setswana (2001 Census). The district code is DC40.

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Neighbours

Southern is surrounded (clockwise) by:

[edit] Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:


Local municipality Population %
City Council of Klerksdorp 359 198 59.90%
Potchefstroom 128 356 21.40%
Maquassi Hills 69 042 11.51%
Ventersdorp 43 081 7.18%

[edit] Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.


Language Population %
Setswana 263 804 43.99%
Afrikaans 116 195 19.38%
Sesotho 96 849 16.15%
IsiXhosa 83 861 13.98%
English 12 921 2.15%
IsiZulu 9 430 1.57%
Xitsonga 6 642 1.11%
Sepedi 3 162 0.53%
SiSwati 2 568 0.43%
Other 2 458 0.41%
IsiNdebele 1 041 0.17%
Tshivenda 746 0.12%

[edit] Gender

Gender Population %
Male 301 391 50.26%
Female 298 283 49.74%

[edit] Ethnic group

Ethnic group Population %
Black African 472 237 78.75%
White 104 375 17.41%
Coloured 21 027 3.51%
Indian/Asian 2 035 0.34%

[edit] Age

Age Population %
000 - 004 52 714 8.79%
005 - 009 51 847 8.65%
010 - 014 57 243 9.55%
015 - 019 61 062 10.18%
020 - 024 57 261 9.55%
025 - 029 54 606 9.11%
030 - 034 51 489 8.59%
035 - 039 50 094 8.35%
040 - 044 43 850 7.31%
045 - 049 33 471 5.58%
050 - 054 24 755 4.13%
055 - 059 18 666 3.11%
060 - 064 14 690 2.45%
065 - 069 10 532 1.76%
070 - 074 7 770 1.30%
075 - 079 4 823 0.80%
080 - 084 3 003 0.50%
085 - 089 1 166 0.19%
090 - 094 420 0.07%
095 - 099 150 0.03%
100 plus 62 0.01%

[edit] Politics

[edit] Election results

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

  • Population 18 and over: 401 692 [66.99% of total population]
  • Total votes: 226 396 [37.75% of total population]
  • Voting % estimate: 56.36% votes as a % of population 18 and over
Party Votes %
African National Congress 174 328 77.00%
Democratic Alliance 28 838 12.74%
Freedom Front Plus 6 465 2.86%
African Christian Democratic Party 3 503 1.55%
Independent Democrats 2 877 1.27%
Pan African Congress 2 338 1.03%
United Democratic Movement 2 095 0.93%
New National Party 1 858 0.82%
United Christian Democratic Party 1 670 0.74%
Inkhata Freedom Party 851 0.38%
Azanian People's Organisation 410 0.18%
NA 247 0.11%
SOPA 171 0.08%
CDP 159 0.07%
EMSA 141 0.06%
UF 116 0.05%
PJC 105 0.05%
TOP 82 0.04%
KISS 54 0.02%
NLP 54 0.02%
Minority Front 34 0.02%
Total 226 396 100.00%


[edit] References


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