The ZF Mgcawu District Municipality (known before 1 July 2013 as Siyanda) is one of the 5

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of the

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province of

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. The seat of ZF Mgcawu is

Upington Upington ( Nama: //Khara hais) is a town founded in 1873 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River. The town was originally called Olijvenhoutsdrift ('Olive wood drift'), due to the abundance of ...

. The majority (76%) of its 236,783 Municipal Profiles
/ref> people speak

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(2011

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). The district code is DC8. ZF Mgcawu District Municipality is named after Upington's first post-1994 democratically elected mayor, Zwelentlanga Fatman Mgcawu. In a previous renaming, from Gordonia, the name Siyanda, meaning "we are growing", was used.

Geography

Neighbours

ZF Mgcawu is surrounded by: * the Republic of

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...

in the north *

John Taolo Gaetsewe John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in the village of Maruping in Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality is an administrative area in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District of the Northern Cape in South Africa. Segonyana is the Se ...

(DC45), formerly Kgalagadi, in the north-east *

Frances Baard Frances Goitsemang Baard (1 October 1909 – 1997) was a South African (ethnic Tswana) trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League and a Patron of the United Democratic Front, who was commemorated in the renaming ...

(DC9) in the east * Pixley ka Seme (DC7) in the south-east * Namakwa (DC6) in the south-west * the Republic of

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in the west

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001

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Gender

Ethnic group

Age

Politics

Election results

Election results for Siyanda in the

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. * Population 18 and over: 131 760 2.78% of total population* Total votes: 75 264 5.86% of total population* Voting % estimate: 57.12% votes as a % of population 18 and over

References

External links

Official website
{{Siyanda District Municipality District municipalities of the Northern Cape ZF Mgcawu District Municipality