Infographics | South Africa Gateway https://southafrica-info.com/category/infographics/ Here is a tree rooted in African soil. Come and sit under its shade. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:19:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://southafrica-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-2000px-flag_of_south_africa-svg-32x32.png Infographics | South Africa Gateway https://southafrica-info.com/category/infographics/ 32 32 136030989 Nelson Mandela’s family tree https://southafrica-info.com/history/nelson-mandela-genealogy-family-tree/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:00:36 +0000 http://southafrica-info.com/?p=303 Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 and died, aged 95, in 2013. His family tree remains, growing from three wives and six children to 17 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and on ...

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Infographic of Nelson Mandela's family tree - Mandela's wives and descendants from 1918 to 2018.

Nelson Mandela’s descendants include six children, 17 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren – and more. Download full-size image. (Mary Alexander, CC BY 4.0)

Mandela’s father was Mphakanyiswa Gadla Henry Mandela, who died in 1930. His mother was Nonqaphi Fanny Nosekeni, who died in 1968.

Mandela was married three times and had six children.

Marriage and children

In 1944, at the age of 26, Mandela married Evelyn Ntoko Mase (1922-2004). They had four children together, three of whom died tragically.

Mandela’s first child, Madiba Thembekile Mandela – known as Thembi – was born in 1945. Thembi died in a car accident in 1969 while his father was in prison. Mandela was not allowed to attend his son’s funeral.

A second child, daughter Makaziwe (or Maki) Mandela, died in infancy in 1948.

Mandela and Evelyn Mase’s third child was Makgatho Lewanika Mandela, a son born in 1950. He died of an Aids-related illness in 2005.

Their fourth and surviving child was a daughter, Pumla Makaziwe Mandela – also known as Maki and named for her infant sister – who was born in 1954.

Mandela and Evelyn Mase divorced on 19 March 1958.

On 14 June 1958 Mandela, aged 40, married Winnie (Winifred) Nomzamo Zanyiwe Madikizela, who was born in 1936.

They had two children, both daughters.

Zenani Dlamini-Mandela was born in 1959.

Zindziswa Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s youngest child, was born in 1960. Zindzi, as she was known, died on 13 July 2020 in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. She was buried next to her mother on 17 July, the day before 18 July – her father’s birthday, known worldwide as Mandela Day.

Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela divorced on 19 March 1996.

On 18 July 1998 – his 80th birthday – Mandela married Graça Machel, who was born in 1945. Machel is the widow of slain Mozambican president Samora Machel.

Grandchildren

Nelson Mandela had 17 grandchildren, nine born to the children of Evelyn Mase and eight born to the children of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Grandchildren with Evelyn Mase

Thembi Mandela had two daughters: Ndileka Mandela (born in 1965) and Nandi Mandela (born in 1968).

Makgatho Mandela had four sons: Mandla Mandela (born in 1974), Ndaba Mandela (born in 1983), Mbuso Mandela (born in 1991) and Andile Mandela (born in 1993).

Pumla Maki Mandela has three children: daughter Tukwini Mandela (born in 1974) and sons Dumani Mandela (born in 1976) and Kweku Mandela (born in 1985).

Grandchildren with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Zenani Dlamini-Mandela has four children: daughters Zaziwe Manaway (born in 1977) and Zamaswazi Dlamini (born in 1979), and sons Zinhle Dlamini (born in 1980) and Zozuko Dlamini (born in 1992).

Zindzi Mandela also has four children: daughter Zoleka Mandela (born in 1980, died 2023) and sons Zondwa Mandela (born in 1985), Bambatha Mandela (born in 1989) and Zwelabo Mandela (born in 1992).

Great-grandchildren

The eldest of Mandela’s 19 great-grandchildren was born in 1984, while he was still in prison, and the youngest in 2017 – a span of 33 years.

Great-grandchildren with Evelyn Mase

Thembi Mandela’s family:

Nandi Mandela has a son: Hlanganani Mandela, born in 1986.

Ndileka Mandela has two children: son Thembela Mandela (born in 1984) and daughter Pumla Mandela (born in 1993).

Makgatho Mandela’s family:

Mandla Mandela has two sons: Qheya II Zanethemba Mandela (born in 2011) and Mntwanenkosi Mandela Ikraam Mandela (born in 2017).

Ndaba Mandela also has two sons: Lewanika Ngubencuka Mandela (born in 2010) and Makgabane Sandlasamadlomo Mandela (born in 2015).

Great-grandchildren with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Zenani Dlamini-Mandela’s family:

Zaziwe Manaway has three children: son Ziyanda Manaway (born in 2000), daughter Zipokhazi Manaway (born in 2009), and son Zenkosi John Brunson Manaway (born in 2012).

Zamaswazi Dlamini has a daughter: Zamakhosi Obiri (born in 2008).

Zinhle Dlamini has two daughters: Zinokuhle Marlo Dlamini (born in 2014) and Zenzelwe Marli Mandela Dlamini (born in 2016).

Zindzi Mandela’s family:

Zoleka Mandela had four children, two of whom have tragically died. Her daughter Zenani Mandela was born in 1997, and died in 2010. Her son Zenawe Zibuyile Mandela died in infancy in 2011. Zoleka’s surviving children are a son, Zwelami Mandela (born in 2003), and a daughter, Zanyiwe Zenzile Bashala (born in 2014).

On 25 September 2023 Zoleka Mandela herself died after a long battle with cancer. In a statement, the Nelson Mandela Foundation acknowledged her as a “tireless activist for healthcare and justice”.

Zondwa Mandela has two children: daughter Zazi Kazimla Vitalia Mandela (born in 2010) and son Ziwelene Linge Mandela (born in 2011).

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Researched, designed and written by Mary Alexander.
Updated on 29 September 2024.
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]]> 303 Mapping poverty in South Africa https://southafrica-info.com/people/mapping-poverty-in-south-africa/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:50:51 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=2005 Where are South Africa's poorest places? Two maps find the patterns of poverty: one shows the share of households living in poverty in each municipality, the other the number of poor people living there. And an animation tries to make sense of the maps.

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]]> Where are South Africa’s poorest places? Two maps find the patterns of poverty: the share of households living in poverty in each municipality, and the number of poor people living there. An animation tries to make sense of the maps.
Map of South Africa showing the percentage of housholds living in poverty in each municipality, according to data from the Statistics South Africa Community Survey 2016.

Map of South Africa showing the percentage of households living in poverty in each municipality, according to data from the Statistics South Africa Community Survey 2016.

South Africa’s poorest province is the Eastern Cape. The wealthiest province is Gauteng. Around 880,000 of the mostly rural Eastern Cape’s people live in poverty. In Gauteng, a city region with the best opportunities for jobs, some 610,000 people live in poverty.

These numbers are calculated from Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey.

Poverty in South Africa has deep historical roots that show up in more recent movements of people.

Map of South Africa showing estimated numbers of people living in poverty. The numbers are calculated from the population, poverty headcount and average household size of each municipality.

Map of South Africa showing estimated numbers of people living in poverty. The numbers are calculated from the population, poverty headcount and average household size of each municipality.

The reason so many South Africans live in poverty, in a middle-income country, is apartheid and colonialism. Apartheid was a crude attempt at social engineering designed to make black South Africans a cheap and plentiful source of labour. It was preceded by centuries of Dutch and then British colonialism that had the same goal, but with cruder mechanisms.

Colonialism and apartheid excluded the majority of people from meaningful participation in the economy. It made South Africa poorer than it should have been.

South Africa has a wealth of resources. But for centuries, this potential was squandered.

A government policy designed to keep most of its people poor seems absurd. But until 1994 South Africa was not a democracy. The only electorate the government had to please was white people.

Colonial and apartheid planners purposefully built a system that prevented black South Africans from earning, prospering and contributing to the wealth of the country. That sucked the potential for growth out of the economy.

Animation exploring patterns of poverty on the map of South Africa.

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Today, geographical patterns of poverty on the map of South Africa still correspond to the apartheid “homelands”, barren rural regions far from cities, packed with people but with little infrastructure, no development and few jobs. Municipalities with high percentages of people living in poverty are today often found in regions that were once homelands.

But when we look at total numbers of people living in poverty, the cities stand out. Cities have larger numbers of people, so more people living in poverty are likely to be found there.

Migration from the rural areas to the cities is an important feature of recent South African history. Apartheid laws confined the poor to the rural areas. Once those laws were lifted in the late 1980s, poor people began to move to the cities – where they often stayed poor. And they keep moving.

How is poverty measured?

People are living there. Children play and adults work in Alexandra township, one of the poorest areas in Gauteng. Alex lies on the border of the wealthy suburb of Sandton, said to be the richest square mile in Africa. (CA Bloem, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

People are living there. Children play and adults work in Alexandra township, one of the poorest areas in Gauteng. Alex lies on the border of the wealthy suburb of Sandton, said to be the richest square mile in Africa. (CA Bloem)

Poverty is easy to see, but less easy to define – or to measure across a city, a province or a country. Many measures of poverty use money. If a person lives on less than a certain threshold income they are considered to be living in poverty.

Income is used for the three national poverty lines developed in South Africa. These are the food poverty line (set at R531 per person per month in April 2017), the lower-bound poverty line (R758) and the upper-bound poverty line (R1,138).

Another picture can be painted when we look beyond income to the other ways people experience poverty. How does poverty reveal itself in people’s health, their level of education, the dwelling they live in, how they cook their food, the water they drink? Poverty examined according to different types of deprivation is known as multidimensional poverty.

For its 2016 Community Survey, on which the maps on this page were based, Statistics South Africa used the South African Multidimensional Poverty Index.

Animation explaining the South African Multidimensional Poverty Index, , a non-money measure of poverty

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The index calculates the poverty of households according to four aspects of life: health, education, living standards and economic activity.

These four are known as the dimensions of poverty. Each dimension is assessed according to different indicators.

The poverty indicators

The health dimension has only one indicator: child mortality, or whether a child under the age of five living in the household has died in the past year.

Education has two indicators. One is years of schooling, or whether no person in the household aged 15 or older has completed five years of schooling. The other, school attendance, looks at whether any school-age child seven to 15 years old does not attend school.

Living standards has seven indicators, to do with fuel, water, sanitation, type of dwelling and ownership of assets. What fuel does the household use for lighting, heating and cooking? Is there piped water in the dwelling? Does the household have a flushing toilet? What kind of dwelling does the household live in? What does the household own?

Economic activity is measured by joblessness: whether all the adults, people aged 15 to 64, are out of work.

Each household is scored according to these indicators. If the score is 33.3% or more, the household is living in poverty – they are “multidimensionally poor”.

The South African Multidimensional Poverty Index
Dimension Indicator Deprivation cut-off Weight
Health Child mortality If any child under five in the household has died in the past 12 months. 25%
Education Years of schooling If no household member aged 15 or older has completed five years of schooling. 12.5%
School attendance If any school-aged child (7 to 15 years old) is out of school. 12.5%
Standard of living Fuel for lighting If the household uses paraffin, candles, “other” or nothing for lighting. 3.6%
Fuel for heating If the household uses paraffin, wood, coal, dung, “other” or nothing as fuel for heating. 3.6%
Fuel for cooking If the household uses paraffin, wood, coal, dung, “other” or nothing as fuel for heating. 3.6%
Water access If there is no piped water in the household dwelling or on the stand. 3.6%
Sanitation type If the household does not have a flushing toilet. 3.6%
Dwelling type If the household lives in a shack, a traditional dwelling, a caravan, a tent or other informal housing. 3.6%
Asset ownership If household does not own more than one of these: a radio, a television, a telephone or a refrigerator. And does not own a car. 3.6%
Economic activity Unemployment If all the adults (aged 15 to 64) in the household are unemployed. 25%
Total 100%

Intensity of poverty

The score also measures the intensity of poverty.

In the 2016 Community Survey, the average intensity of the poverty experienced by multidimensionally poor people in the nine provinces ranged from 40.1% in the Western Cape to 44.1% in Gauteng.

Poverty in South Africa’s provinces
Population Households Average household size Households in poverty People in poverty* Intensity of poverty
Eastern Cape
6,996,976 1,773,395 3.9 12.7% 883,490 43.3%
Free State
2,834,714 946,639 3 5.5% 156,052 41.7%
Gauteng
13,399,724 4,951,137 2.7 4.6% 615,659 44.1%
KwaZulu-Natal
11,065,240 2,875,843 3.8 7.7% 846,748 42.5%
Limpopo
5,799,090 1,601,083 3.7 11.5% 674,078 42.3%
Mpumalanga
4,335,964 1,238,861 3.5 7.8% 338,207 42.7%
Northern Cape
1,193,780 353,709 3.4 8.8% 105,442 42.5%
North West
3,748,436 1,248,766 3 6.6% 247,327 42.0%
Western Cape
6,279,730 1,933,876 3.2 2.7% 168,320 40.1%

Map of South Africa showing the intensity of poverty in South Africa's nine provinces, according to data from the Statistics South Africa Community Survey 2016.* Estimate

In Gauteng, only 4.6% of the population live in poverty. But the poverty experienced in Gauteng, the wealthiest province, is the most intense.

The multidimensional poverty index is not intended to replace the other important measures of poverty.

The food poverty line, for example, is the rand value below which people are unable to buy enough food to give them the minimum daily energy requirement for adequate health.

The multidimensional index, Statistics South Africa says, should rather be seen as “a complementary measure to these money-metric measures”.

How do we fight poverty?

According to the World Bank, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. This is not only inequality of income. As the bank said in a report: “Inequality of opportunity, measured by the influence of race, parents’ education, parents’ occupation, place of birth, and gender influence opportunities, is high.”

South Africa’s social welfare system attempts to reduce the worst deprivations of poverty. This “social wage” is paid to the poor in a number of ways.

It includes free primary healthcare, no-fee schools, RDP housing and housing subsidies, free basic water, electricity and sanitation for the poorest households, and social grants.

Social grants in South Africa
Grant type April 2025 October 2025
Old age grant (below 75 years) R2,310 R2,320
Old age grant (above 75 years) R2,330 R2,340
War veteran’s grant R2,330 R2,340
Disability grant R2,310 R2,320
Care dependency grant R2,310 R2,320
Foster child grant R1,250 R1,250
Child support grant R560 R560
Child support grant top-up R280 R280
Grant in aid R560 R560
Covid-19 social relief of distress R370 R370

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, social protection was introduced as a short-term measure to ease the dire poverty created by apartheid. But social grants are now the only livelihood of many South Africans, and remain essential to reducing poverty.

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Researched, written and designed by Mary Alexander.
Updated 8 July 2025.
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]]> 2005 Infographic: The land area of South Africa’s nine provinces https://southafrica-info.com/infographics/infographic-land-area-south-africas-nine-provinces/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:01:44 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1267 South Africa has nine provinces, which vary in size from the small city region of Gauteng – home to more than a quarter of the population – to the great Northern Cape, by far the largest province but with the smallest population.

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]]> South Africa has nine provinces, which vary in size from the small city region of Gauteng – home to more than a quarter of the population – to the great Northern Cape, by far the largest province but with the smallest population.

Bar graph and pie chart comparing the land area of South Africa's nine provinces. The provinces are the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West and Western Cape.
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The land area of South Africa’s nine provinces, in order of size:

  • Gauteng: 18,178 square kilometres (1.5% of total)
  • Mpumalanga: 76,495 square kilometres (6.3%)
  • KwaZulu-Natal: 94,361 square kilometres (7.7%)
  • North West: 104,882 square kilometres (8.6%)
  • Limpopo: 125,755 square kilometres (10.3%)
  • Western Cape: 129,462 square kilometres (10.6%)
  • Free State: 129,825 square kilometres (10.6%)
  • Eastern Cape: 168,966 square kilometres (13.8%)
  • Northern Cape: 372,889 square kilometres (30.5%)
  • South Africa: 1,220,813 square kilometres (100%)

(Source: Statistics South Africa Community Survey 2016)

Map of South Africa's nine provinces
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Updated 7 April 2018.
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]]> 1267 Infographic: Local government in the Eastern Cape https://southafrica-info.com/land/local-government-municipalities-eastern-cape-province/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:09:44 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1876 Local government in the Eastern Cape is organised into eight major municipalities. Two are metropolitan, and the other six are district municipalities. The districts are further divided into 31 local municipalities. The Eastern Cape is divided into eight major municipalities. Two are metropolitan municipalities: Nelson Mandela Bay (the […]

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]]> Local government in the Eastern Cape is organised into eight major municipalities. Two are metropolitan, and the other six are district municipalities. The districts are further divided into 31 local municipalities.

The Eastern Cape is divided into eight major municipalities.

Two are metropolitan municipalities: Nelson Mandela Bay (the city region of Gqeberha) and Buffalo City (East London and surrounds).

The other six are district municipalities – larger, more rural regions.

The district municipalities are further divided into 31 local municipalities.

Eastern Cape: Metropolitan and district municipalities

Name Type Seat Area Population Density
Administrative
centre		 Square kilometres Number
of people		 People per square kilometre
Buffalo City Metropolitan East London 2,750 834,997 304
Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Gqeberha 1,957 1,263,051 645
Alfred Nzo District Mount Ayliff 10,731 867,864 81
Amathole District East London 21,117 880,790 42
Chris Hani District Queenstown 36,407 840,055 23
Joe Gqabi District Barkly East 25,617 372,912 15
OR Tambo District Mthatha 12,141 1,457,384 120
Sarah Baartman District Port Elizabeth 58,245 479,923 8

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Data source: Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey
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Researched, written and designed by Mary Alexander.
Updated 10 March 2024.

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]]> 1876 Infographic: Local government in the Free State https://southafrica-info.com/land/infographic-local-government-municipalities-free-state-south-africa/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:08:24 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1879 Local government in the Free State is organised into five major municipalities. One is metropolitan, and the other four district municipalities. The districts are further divided into 19 local municipalities.

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]]> Local government in the Free State is organised into five major municipalities. One is metropolitan, and the other four district municipalities. The districts are further divided into 19 local municipalities.

The Free State is divided into five major municipalities.

One is the metropolitan municipality of Mangaung, which has the city of Bloemfontein as its seat.

The other four – larger, more rural regions – are district municipalities.

The province also has 19 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the four district municipalities.

Free State: Metropolitan and district municipalities

Name Type Seat Area Population Density
Administrative
centre		 Square kilometres Number
of people		 People per square kilometre
Mangaung Metropolitan Bloemfontein 9,886 787,803 80
Fezile Dabi District Sasolburg 20,668 494,777 24
Lejweleputswa District Welkom 32,287 646,920 20
Thabo Mofutsanyana District Phuthaditjhaba 32,734 779,330 24
Xhariep District Trompsburg 34,250 125,884 4

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Data source: Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey
Thanks and credit to Htonl, who makes public-funded data available to the public and creates maps of South Africa you can’t find anywhere else.

Researched, written and designed by Mary Alexander.
Updated 10 March 2025.

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]]> 1879 Infographic: Local government in Gauteng https://southafrica-info.com/land/infographic-local-government-municipalities-gauteng-province/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:07:15 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1885 Local government in the city region of Gauteng is organised into five major municipalities. Three are metropolitan, and two are district municipalities. The districts are further divided into six local municipalities.

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]]> Local government in the city region of Gauteng is organised into five major municipalities. Three are metropolitan, and two are district municipalities. The districts are further divided into six local municipalities.

Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa. But a quarter of the country’s people – 25% – live here.

Gauteng is mostly a region of cities.

Its local government is organised into five major municipalities. Three are metropolitan municipalities: the City of Johannesburg (with its seat in Johannesburg), the City of Tshwane (its seat in Pretoria) and Ekurhuleni (its seat in Germiston).

The other two – Sedibeng and West Rand – are district municipalities. Sedibeng and West Rand each govern three district municipalities.

Name Type Seat Area Population Density
Administrative
centre		 Square kilometres Number
of people		 People per square kilometre
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Johannesburg 1,645 4,949,347 3,009
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Pretoria 6,298 3,275,152 520
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Germiston 1,975 3,379,104 1,711
Sedibeng District Vereeniging 4,173 957,528 230
West Rand District Randfontein 4,087 838,594 205

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Data source: Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey
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Researched, written and designed by Mary Alexander.
Updated 10 June 2018.

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]]> 1885 Infographic: Local government in KwaZulu-Natal https://southafrica-info.com/land/infographic-municipalities-local-government-kwazulu-natal-province/ Sun, 05 Jan 2025 22:06:41 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1900 Local government in KwaZulu-Natal is organised into eight major municipalities. One is metropolitan, and the other 10 are district municipalities. The districts are further divided into 43 local municipalities. KwaZulu-Natal has 11 major municipalities. One is the metropolitan municipality of eThekwini, the urban region around the city of […]

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]]> Local government in KwaZulu-Natal is organised into eight major municipalities. One is metropolitan, and the other 10 are district municipalities. The districts are further divided into 43 local municipalities.

KwaZulu-Natal has 11 major municipalities.

One is the metropolitan municipality of eThekwini, the urban region around the city of Durban.

The other 10 – larger, more rural regions – are district municipalities.

The province also has 43 local municipalities, each falling under one of the 10 district municipalities.

KwaZulu-Natal: Metropolitan and district municipalities

Name Type Seat Area Population Density
Administrative
centre		 Square kilometres Number
of people		 People per square kilometre
eThekwini Metropolitan Durban 2,556 3,702,231 1,449
Amajuba District Newcastle 7,102 531,327 75
Harry Gwala District Ixopo 10,386 510,865 49
iLembe District KwaDukuza 3,269 657,612 201
King Cetshwayo District Richards Bay 8,213 971,135 118
Ugu District Port Shepstone 4,791 753,336 157
uMgungundlovu District Pietermaritzburg 9,602 1,095,865 114
uMkhanyakude District Mkuze 13,855 689,090 50
uMzinyathi District Dundee 8,652 554,882 64
uThukela District Ladysmith 11,134 706,588 64
Zululand District Ulundi 14,799 892,310 60

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Data source: Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey
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Researched, written and designed by Mary Alexander.
Updated 10 March 2025.

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]]> 1900 Infographic: Local government in Limpopo https://southafrica-info.com/land/infographic-local-government-municipalities-limpopo-province-south-africa/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:05:43 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1908 Local government in Limpopo is organised into five district municipalities. The province also has 22 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the five district municipalities. Limpopo is divided into five district municipalities. The province also has 22 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the […]

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]]> Local government in Limpopo is organised into five district municipalities. The province also has 22 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the five district municipalities.

Limpopo is divided into five district municipalities.

The province also has 22 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the five district municipalities.

Limpopo has no metropolitan municipalities.

District municipalities of Limpopo

Name Type Seat Area Population Density
Administrative
centre		 Square kilometres Number
of people		 People per square kilometre
Capricorn District Polokwane 21,705 1,330,436 61
Mopani District Giyani 20,011 1,159,185 58
Sekhukhune District Groblersdal 13,528 1,169,762 87
Vhembe District Thohoyandou 25,596 1,393,949 55
Waterberg District Modimolle 44,913 745,758 17

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Data source: Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey
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Updated 10 March 2025.

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]]> 1908 Infographic: Local government in Mpumalanga https://southafrica-info.com/land/infographic-local-government-municipalities-mpumalanga-province/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:04:24 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1927 Local government in Mpumalanga is organised into three district municipalities. The province also has 17 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the district municipalities.

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]]> Local government in Mpumalanga is organised into three district municipalities. The province also has 17 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the district municipalities.

Mpumalanga is divided into three district municipalities.

The province also has 17 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the district municipalities.

Mpumalanga has no metropolitan municipalities.

District municipalities in Mpumalanga

Name Type Seat Area Population Density
Administrative
centre		 Square kilometres Number of people People per square kilometre
Ehlanzeni District Nelspruit 27,896 1,754,931 63
Gert Sibande District Ermelo 31,841 1,135,409 36
Nkangala District Middelburg 16,758 1,445,624 86

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Data source: Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey
Thanks and credit to Htonl, who makes public-funded data available to the public and creates maps of South Africa you can’t find anywhere else.

Researched, written and designed by Mary Alexander.
Updated 10 March 2025.

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]]> 1927 Infographic: Local government in the Northern Cape https://southafrica-info.com/land/infographic-local-government-municipalities-northern-cape-province-south-africa/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:03:44 +0000 https://southafrica-info.com/?p=1941 Local government in the Northern Cape is organised into five district municipalities. The province also has 26 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the five district municipalities. The Northern Cape is divided into five district municipalities. The province also has 26 smaller local municipalities, each falling […]

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]]> Local government in the Northern Cape is organised into five district municipalities. The province also has 26 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the five district municipalities.

The Northern Cape is divided into five district municipalities.

The province also has 26 smaller local municipalities, each falling under one of the five district municipalities.

The Northern Cape has no metropolitan municipalities.

District municipalities in the Northern Cape

Name Type Seat Area Population Density
Administrative
centre		 Square kilometres Number of
people		 People per square kilometre
Frances Baard District Kimberley 12,836 387,741 30
John Taolo Gaetsewe District Kuruman 27,322 242,264 9
Namakwa District Springbok 126,836 115,488 1
Pixley ka Seme District De Aar 103,411 195,595 2
ZF Mgcawu District Upington 102,484 252,692 3

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Data source: Statistics South Africa’s 2016 Community Survey
Thanks and credit to Htonl, who makes public-funded data available to the public and creates maps of South Africa you can’t find anywhere else.

Researched, written and designed by Mary Alexander.
Updated 10 March 2025.

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