# Fezile Dabi District Municipality

The Fezile Dabi District Municipality (Sotho: Masepala wa Setereke wa Fezile Dabi; Afrikaans: Fezile Dabi-distriktsmunisipaliteit), formerly known as the Northern Free State District Municipality, is one of the 5 districts of the Free State province of South Africa. The seat is Sasolburg. As of 2011, a majority of its 460,289 residents spoke Sesotho. The district code is DC20.

## Geography
### Neighbours

Northern Free State is surrounded by:
* Sedibeng in Gauteng to the north (DC42)
* Gert Sibande in Mpumalanga to the north-east (DC30)
* Thabo Mofutsanyane to the south-east (DC19)
* Lejweleputswa to the south-west (DC18)
* Dr Kenneth Kaunda in North-West to the north-west (DC40)

### Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:
| Local municipality | Population | % | Dominant language |
| Moqhaka | 167 886 | 36.47% | Sotho |
| Ngwathe | 118 820 | 25.81% | Sotho |
| Metsimaholo | 115 964 | 25.19% | Sotho |
| Mafube | 57 637 | 12.52% | Sotho |

## Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.
| Language | Population | % |
| Sesotho | 312 962 | 67.99% |
| Afrikaans | 62 430 | 13.56% |
| IsiXhosa | 34 888 | 7.58% |
| IsiZulu | 31 229 | 6.78% |
| Setswana | 6 121 | 1.33% |
| English | 4 749 | 1.03% |
| Sepedi | 2 628 | 0.57% |
| SiSwati | 1 537 | 0.33% |
| IsiNdebele | 1 243 | 0.27% |
| Xitsonga | 1 241 | 0.27% |
| Other | 757 | 0.16% |
| Tshivenda | 522 | 0.11% |

### Sex

| Gender | Population | % |
| Female | 233 921 | 50.82% |
| Male | 226 368 | 49.18% |

### Ethnic group

| Ethnic group | Population | % |
| Black African | 394 519 | 85.71% |
| White | 56 094 | 12.19% |
| Coloured | 9 174 | 1.99% |
| Indian/Asian | 502 | 0.11% |

### Age

| Age | Population | % |
| 000 - 004 | 41 558 | 9.03% |
| 005 - 009 | 43 971 | 9.55% |
| 010 - 014 | 49 984 | 10.86% |
| 015 - 019 | 51 062 | 11.09% |
| 020 - 024 | 42 606 | 9.26% |
| 025 - 029 | 39 124 | 8.50% |
| 030 - 034 | 34 867 | 7.58% |
| 035 - 039 | 32 496 | 7.06% |
| 040 - 044 | 28 301 | 6.15% |
| 045 - 049 | 24 171 | 5.25% |
| 050 - 054 | 19 601 | 4.26% |
| 055 - 059 | 14 915 | 3.24% |
| 060 - 064 | 12 049 | 2.62% |
| 065 - 069 | 9 577 | 2.08% |
| 070 - 074 | 7 059 | 1.53% |
| 075 - 079 | 4 119 | 0.89% |
| 080 - 084 | 2 922 | 0.63% |
| 085 - 089 | 1 249 | 0.27% |
| 090 - 094 | 469 | 0.10% |
| 095 - 099 | 132 | 0.03% |
| 100 plus | 57 | 0.01% |

## Politics
### Election results

Election results for Northern Free State in the South African general election, 2004.
* Population 18 and over: 293 994 [63.87% of total population]
* Total votes: 182 833 [39.72% of total population]
* Voting % estimate: 62.19% votes as a % of population 18 and over
| Party | Votes | % |
| African National Congress | 146 691 | 80.23% |
| Democratic Alliance | 20 395 | 11.15% |
| Freedom Front Plus | 4 210 | 2.30% |
| United Democratic Movement | 2 326 | 1.27% |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 2 265 | 1.24% |
| New National Party | 1 511 | 0.83% |
| Pan African Congress | 1 449 | 0.79% |
| Independent Democrats | 1 097 | 0.60% |
| Azanian People's Organisation | 894 | 0.49% |
| Inkhata Freedom Party | 749 | 0.41% |
| United Christian Democratic Party | 301 | 0.16% |
| SOPA | 203 | 0.11% |
| NA | 167 | 0.09% |
| CDP | 126 | 0.07% |
| EMSA | 109 | 0.06% |
| PJC | 94 | 0.05% |
| UF | 84 | 0.05% |
| TOP | 60 | 0.03% |
| KISS | 35 | 0.02% |
| NLP | 34 | 0.02% |
| Minority Front | 33 | 0.02% |
| Total | 182 833 | 100.00% |