# Metsweding District Municipality

Metsweding District Municipality was, from 2000 until 18 May 2011, a district municipality in Gauteng province, South Africa. Metsweding, and its component local municipalities, was disestablished and absorbed into the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality on the date of the 2011 municipal election.
The administrative seat of Metsweding was Bronkhorstspruit. The most spoken languages of its 159 861 people were IsiNdebele and Afrikaans (2001 Census).

## Geography
### Neighbours

Metsweding was surrounded by:
* Waterberg (DC36) to the north
* Nkangala (DC31) to the east
* Ekurhuleni (East Rand) to the south-west
* Bojanala Platinum (DC36) to the north-west
* Tshwane (Pretoria) to the west, into which it was merged

### Local municipalities

The district contained the following local municipalities, which have also been abolished:
| Local municipality | Population | % |
| Kungwini | 107 320 | 67.13% |
| Nokeng tsa Taemane | 52 591 | 32.90% |

## Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.
| Language | Population | % |
| IsiNdebele | 32 146 | 20.11% |
| Afrikaans | 30 757 | 19.24% |
| Sepedi | 29 596 | 18.51% |
| IsiZulu | 26 526 | 16.59% |
| Sesotho | 9 502 | 5.94% |
| Setswana | 7 428 | 4.65% |
| Xitsonga | 7 178 | 4.49% |
| English | 5 372 | 3.36% |
| SiSwati | 4 963 | 3.10% |
| IsiXhosa | 3 620 | 2.26% |
| Tshivenda | 1 665 | 1.04% |
| Other | 1 158 | 0.72% |

### Gender

| Gender | Population | % |
| Male | 83 801 | 52.42% |
| Female | 76 060 | 47.58% |

### Ethnic group

| Ethnic group | Population | % |
| Black African | 124 713 | 78.01% |
| White | 32 943 | 20.61% |
| Coloured | 1 930 | 1.21% |
| Indian/Asian | 275 | 0.17% |

### Age

| Age | Population | % |
| 000 - 004 | 14 549 | 9.10% |
| 005 - 009 | 13 841 | 8.66% |
| 010 - 014 | 13 421 | 8.40% |
| 015 - 019 | 13 998 | 8.76% |
| 020 - 024 | 15 914 | 9.95% |
| 025 - 029 | 17 830 | 11.15% |
| 030 - 034 | 15 898 | 9.94% |
| 035 - 039 | 14 070 | 8.80% |
| 040 - 044 | 10 920 | 6.83% |
| 045 - 049 | 8 528 | 5.33% |
| 050 - 054 | 6 501 | 4.07% |
| 055 - 059 | 4 626 | 2.89% |
| 060 - 064 | 3 601 | 2.25% |
| 065 - 069 | 2 263 | 1.42% |
| 070 - 074 | 1 717 | 1.07% |
| 075 - 079 | 1 036 | 0.65% |
| 080 - 084 | 772 | 0.48% |
| 085 - 089 | 204 | 0.13% |
| 090 - 094 | 112 | 0.07% |
| 095 - 099 | 40 | 0.03% |
| 100 plus | 20 | 0.01% |

## Politics
### Election results

Election results for Metsweding in the South African general election, 2004.
* Population 18 and over: 109 820 [68.70% of total population]
* Total votes: 59 426 [37.17% of total population]
* Voting % estimate: 54.11% votes as a % of population 18 and over
| Party | Votes | % |
| African National Congress | 44 191 | 74.36% |
| Democratic Alliance | 9 985 | 16.80% |
| Freedom Front Plus | 1 611 | 2.71% |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 1 234 | 2.08% |
| Independent Democrats | 478 | 0.80% |
| United Democratic Movement | 338 | 0.57% |
| Pan African Congress | 318 | 0.54% |
| Inkhata Freedom Party | 311 | 0.52% |
| New National Party | 270 | 0.45% |
| CDP | 139 | 0.23% |
| United Christian Democratic Party | 131 | 0.22% |
| NA | 129 | 0.22% |
| Azanian People's Organisation | 116 | 0.20% |
| UF | 43 | 0.07% |
| SOPA | 41 | 0.07% |
| TOP | 22 | 0.04% |
| PJC | 20 | 0.03% |
| EMSA | 18 | 0.03% |
| Minority Front | 18 | 0.03% |
| KISS | 9 | 0.02% |
| NLP | 4 | 0.01% |
| Total | 59 426 | 100.00% |