Capricorn District Municipality

Capricorn is one of the 6 districts of Limpopo province of South Africa. The district is named after the Tropic of Capricorn which runs through it. The seat of Capricorn is Polokwane. The majority of its 1 154 673 people speak Northern Sotho (2001 census). The district code is DC35.

Contents

Geography

Neighbours

Capricorn is surrounded by:

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:

Local municipality Population %
Polokwane 508 272 44.02%
Lepele-Nkumpi 227 965 19.74%
Blouberg 161 326 13.97%
Aganang 147 686 12.79%
Molemole 109 442 9.48%

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.

Language Population %
Northern Sotho 1 018 216 88.18%
Tsonga 35 983 3.12%
Afrikaans 33 626 2.91%
Ndebele 26 356 2.28%
Venda 10 627 0.92%
English 10 186 0.88%
Sotho 8 623 0.75%
Tswana 3 329 0.29%
Zulu 2 974 0.26%
Swati 2 065 0.18%
Other 1 503 0.13%
Xhosa 1 203 0.10%

Gender

Gender Population %
Female 627 882 54.38%
Male 526 791 45.62%

Ethnic group

Ethnic group Population %
Black African 1 113 072 96.40%
White 33 720 2.92%
Coloured 4 493 0.39%
Indian/Asian 3 388 0.29%

Age

Age Population %
000 - 004 130 815 11.33%
005 - 009 157 650 13.65%
010 - 014 165 920 14.37%
015 - 019 152 744 13.23%
020 - 024 99 157 8.59%
025 - 029 75 833 6.57%
030 - 034 63 494 5.50%
035 - 039 59 857 5.18%
040 - 044 49 348 4.27%
045 - 049 41 593 3.60%
050 - 054 34 780 3.01%
055 - 059 26 819 2.32%
060 - 064 27 205 2.36%
065 - 069 21 739 1.88%
070 - 074 19 736 1.71%
075 - 079 10 620 0.92%
080 - 084 10 541 0.91%
085 - 089 3 649 0.32%
090 - 094 1 978 0.17%
095 - 099 857 0.07%
100 plus 338 0.03%

Politics

Election results

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

Party Votes %
African National Congress 301 125 88.31%
Democratic Alliance 14 208 4.17%
United Democratic Movement 6 238 1.83%
African Christian Democratic Party 4 571 1.34%
Pan African Congress 3 143 0.92%
Azanian People's Organisation 2 921 0.86%
Freedom Front Plus 2 296 0.67%
New National Party 2 249 0.66%
Independent Democrats 764 0.22%
Inkhata Freedom Party 587 0.17%
United Christian Democratic Party 497 0.15%
NA 491 0.14%
EMSA 328 0.10%
SOPA 300 0.09%
PJC 277 0.08%
TOP 228 0.07%
UF 215 0.06%
CDP 213 0.06%
KISS 125 0.04%
NLP 121 0.04%
Minority Front 107 0.03%
Total 341 004 100.00%

See also

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