Gert Sibande District Municipality

Gert Sibande

Eastvaal District
Gert Sibande Eastvaal District
District municipality
	Seal
	Location in South Africa
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
Seat	Ermelo
Local municipalities	List Albert Luthuli; Msukaligwa; Mkhondo; Pixley Ka Seme; Lekwa; Dipaleseng; Govan Mbeki;
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Muzi Chirwa (African National Congress)
Area
• Total	31,841 km2 (12,294 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	1,043,194
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	88.6%
• Coloured	1.0%
• Indian/Asian	1.1%
• White	9.0%
First languages (2011)
• Zulu	60.9%
• Swazi	13.0%
• Afrikaans	9.1%
• Sotho	4.2%
• Other	12.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	DC30

Gert Sibande (until 2004 known as the Eastvaal District Municipality) is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Gert Sibande is Ermelo. The majority of its 900 007 people speak IsiZulu (2001 Census). The district code is DC30. On 15 October 2004, the municipality changed its name from the "Eastvaal" (Afrikaans: Oosvaal) to "Gert Sibande" District Municipality.^[3] The district is named after the ANC activist Gert Sibande.

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ http://www.gsibande.gov.za/History.aspx

[muni_mayor-1] "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.

[muni_population-2] "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[3] ttp://www.gsibande.gov.za/History.aspx

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