John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality

John Taolo Gaetsewe

Kgalagadi District
John Taolo Gaetsewe Kgalagadi District
District municipality
	Seal
	Location in South Africa
	Coordinates: 27°S 23°E / 27°S 23°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Northern Cape
Seat	Kuruman
Local municipalities	List Joe Morolong; Ga-Segonyana; Gamagara;
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Benjamin Gaobusiwe
Area
• Total	27,283 km2 (10,534 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	224,799
• Density	8.2/km2 (21/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	84.8%
• Coloured	9.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	5.0%
First languages (2011)
• Tswana	75.6%
• Afrikaans	16.5%
• English	2.6%
• Other	5.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	DC45

The John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Sedika wa John Taolo Gaetsewe; Afrikaans: John Taolo Gaetsewe-distriksmunisipaliteit), formerly the Kgalagadi District Municipality, is one of the five districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of the authority is Kuruman. As of 2011, the majority of its 176,899 residents speak Setswana. The district code is DC45.

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[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.

[muni_langs-3] "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

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