# Ehlanzeni District Municipality

Ehlanzeni is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Ehlanzeni is Mbombela. The majority of its 944 665 people speak SiSwati (2001 Census). The district code is DC32.

## Geography
### Neighbours

Ehlanzeni is surrounded by:
* Mopani (DC33) to the north
* The republic of Mozambique to the east
* The kingdom of Eswatini to the south
* Gert Sibande (DC30) to the south
* Nkangala (DC31) to the south-west
* Sekhukhune (CBDC3) to the north-west

### Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:
| Local municipality | Population | % | Dominant language |
| Mbombela | 528 550 | 55.95% | Swazi |
| Nkomazi | 334 419 | 35.40% | Swazi |
| Thaba Chweu | 81 238 | 8.60% | Northern Sotho |
| Bushbuckridge | 495 | 0.05% | Tsonga |

## Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.
| Language | Population | % |
| SiSwati | 737 534 | 78.07% |
| Xitsonga | 64 987 | 6.88% |
| Sepedi | 40 513 | 4.29% |
| Afrikaans | 39 731 | 4.21% |
| English | 18 103 | 1.92% |
| IsiZulu | 16 311 | 1.73% |
| Sesotho | 16 092 | 1.70% |
| Setswana | 3 478 | 0.37% |
| IsiNdebele | 2 411 | 0.26% |
| Other | 2 407 | 0.25% |
| IsiXhosa | 2 260 | 0.24% |
| Tshivenda | 875 | 0.09% |

### Gender

| Gender | Population | % |
| Female | 491 212 | 52.00% |
| Male | 453 453 | 48.00% |

### Ethnic group

| Ethnic group | Population | % |
| Black African | 889 436 | 94.15% |
| White | 45 809 | 4.85% |
| Coloured | 6 851 | 0.73% |
| Indian/Asian | 2 569 | 0.27% |

### Age

| Age | Population | % |
| 000–004 | 108 898 | 11.53% |
| 005–009 | 112 747 | 11.94% |
| 010–014 | 116 683 | 12.35% |
| 015–019 | 113 504 | 12.02% |
| 020–024 | 93 023 | 9.85% |
| 025–029 | 85 374 | 9.04% |
| 030–034 | 68 929 | 7.30% |
| 035–039 | 61 112 | 6.47% |
| 040–044 | 44 885 | 4.75% |
| 045–049 | 37 270 | 3.95% |
| 050–054 | 27 034 | 2.86% |
| 055–059 | 18 573 | 1.97% |
| 060–064 | 18 662 | 1.98% |
| 065–069 | 12 453 | 1.32% |
| 070–074 | 11 883 | 1.26% |
| 075–079 | 5 698 | 0.60% |
| 080–084 | 5 132 | 0.54% |
| 085–089 | 1 525 | 0.16% |
| 090–094 | 804 | 0.09% |
| 095–099 | 324 | 0.03% |
| 100 plus | 152 | 0.02% |

## Politics
### Election results

Election results for Ehlanzeni in the South African general election, 2004.
* Population 18 and over: 537 768 [56.93% of total population]
* Total votes: 333 737 [35.33% of total population]
* Voting % estimate: 62.06% votes as a % of population 18 and over
| Party | Votes | % |
| African National Congress | 298 810 | 89.53% |
| Democratic Alliance | 20 523 | 6.15% |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 3 087 | 0.92% |
| United Democratic Movement | 3 006 | 0.90% |
| Freedom Front Plus | 1 891 | 0.57% |
| Pan African Congress | 1 460 | 0.44% |
| New National Party | 1 216 | 0.36% |
| Independent Democrats | 1 056 | 0.32% |
| Inkhata Freedom Party | 1 038 | 0.31% |
| Azanian People's Organisation | 348 | 0.10% |
| United Christian Democratic Party | 282 | 0.08% |
| SOPA | 172 | 0.05% |
| NA | 136 | 0.04% |
| EMSA | 130 | 0.04% |
| CDP | 124 | 0.04% |
| PJC | 118 | 0.04% |
| UF | 118 | 0.04% |
| TOP | 75 | 0.02% |
| KISS | 62 | 0.02% |
| NLP | 54 | 0.02% |
| Minority Front | 31 | 0.01% |
| Total | 333 737 | 100.00% |