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Profile: Mopani District Municipality 2 PROFILE: MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY PROFILE: MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY 3 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. 1. INTRODUCTION: BRIEF OVERVIEW .......................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.1. Location ................................................................................................................................. 8 1.2. Historical Perspective .......................................................................................................... 8 1.3. Spatial Status ........................................................................................................................ 9 2. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROFILE ........................................................................ 9 2.1. Key Social Demographics ................................................................................................... 9 2.1.1. Population .............................................................................................................................. 9 2.1.2. Race, Gender & Age .......................................................................................................... 10 2.1.3. Households .......................................................................................................................... 11 2.1.4. Child Headed Households ................................................................................................. 11 2.1.5. Women headed Households ............................................................................................. 12 2.2. District Health Profile .......................................................................................................... 12 2.3. Covid-19 ............................................................................................................................... 13 2.3.1. Number of cases ................................................................................................................. 13 2.3.2. Quarantine Facilities Available and Assessed ............................................................... 15 2.3.3. Infrastructure (responding to COVID 19) ......................................................................... 15 2.3.4. Social Support (responding to Covid 19)......................................................................... 16 2.3.5. Economic Support ............................................................................................................... 17 2.4 Poverty Dimensions ............................................................................................................ 17 2.4.1 Distribution ........................................................................................................................... 17 2.4.2 Inequality .............................................................................................................................. 18 2.4.3 Employment/Unemployment ............................................................................................. 19 2.4.4 Crime ..................................................................................................................................... 19 3 DRIVERS OF THE ECONOMY ...................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 3.1 Structure of the Economy ................................................................................................. 22 3.2 Primary sector ..................................................................................................................... 26 3.3 Secondary sector ............................................................................................................... 26 4 SERVICE DELIVERY ...................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 4.1 Water & Sanitation ............................................................................................................. 27 4.2 Human Settlements ........................................................................................................... 27 4.3 Waste Management ........................................................................................................... 28 4.4 Roads & Transport ............................................................................................................. 28 4.5 Electricity ............................................................................................................................. 28 5 GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT ......................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 5.1 Municipality Performance .................................................................................................. 29 5.1.1 Audit Outcomes .................................................................................................................. 29 5.2 Municipal Capacity ............................................................................................................. 30 5.3 Traditional Affairs Governance ......................................................................................... 30 6 PROJECTS TO DIVERSIFY AND GROW PEOPLE AND THE ECONOMY Error! Bookmark not defined. 6.1 Social Development Projects............................................................................................ 31 6.2 Spatial Development .......................................................................................................... 33 6.3 Infrastructure Projects ....................................................................................................... 33 6.4 Economic Projects ............................................................................................................. 34 6.5 Environmental forecast ...................................................................................................... 35 7 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 7.1 Prioritise Integrated Development Plan .......................................................................... 36 7.2. Investor and Sponsorship opportunities ......................................................................... 36 4 PROFILE: MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY 5 MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY PROFILE: COVID-19 Vulnerability Index Mopani Source: CSIR/NCDM ` 6 PROFILE: MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY Executive Summary The Mopani District Municipality is located within the north-eastern quadrant of the Limpopo Province. It is bordered in the north by Zimbabwe and Vhembe District Municipality, in the south by the Mpumalanga Province through Ehlanzeni District Municipality, in the south-west by Sekhukhune District Municipality, in the east by Mozambique, and in the west by the Capricorn and Vhembe District Municipalities. There are 16 urban areas (towns and townships), 354 villages (rural settlements) and a total of 129 Wards. The District has a land size of 20 011km² and includes a portion of Kruger National Park from Olifants to Shingwedzi camps or Lepelle to Shingwedzi rivers. The Mopani District Municipality is one of the five district municipalities in the Limpopo Province and consists of five local municipalities, namely; Ba-Phalaborwa (7 489km²), Greater Giyani (4 172km²), Maruleng (3 563km²), Greater Tzaneen (2 897km²) and Greater Letaba (1 891km²). The Council seat of Mopani DM is in Giyani, and the district is part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Mopani District has a total population of 1 150 722 people which is about 20% of the province’s population. The district has a total number of 338 425 households, which is about one-fifth of the number in the province and less than 10% of the total number of households in the country. In 2016, 2.2% of the households in the districts lived in informal dwellings (shacks), which is about half the rate in the province (4.8%) and about one-fifth of the rate in South Africa (12.96%). About 86% of the households in the district lived in a formal house. In 2019, there were 628 941 people living in poverty, using the upper poverty line definition, across Mopani District Municipality - this is higher than the 674 588 in 2009. The district has median age of 23, with 477 120 children calling it home. 7 166 households are headed by children. This has devastating impact to social upbringing of the society. A majority of the population in the district is black African, accounting to 98% of the total population, followed by whites representing 2% of the total population. Within Mopani District Municipality, the number of people without any schooling decreased from 179 855 (2009) to 95 112 (2019), while in the same period the number of people within the 'matric only' category, increased from 64 714 to 179 874. The number of people with 'matric and a certificate/diploma' increased from 20 417 to 44 066 in the same period, while number of people with a 'matric and a Bachelor's' degree increasing from 1 512 to 16 030. PROFILE: MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY 7 On the economic front, in 2019, the mining sector was the largest within Mopani District Municipality accounting for 35% of the total GVA in the district municipality's economy. Mining is concentrated in the Ba-Phalaborwa region. The mining industry here is dominated by copper and phosphates. The sector that contributes the second most to the GVA of the Mopani District Municipality is the community services sector at 20%, followed by the finance and trade sectors with 13%. The sector that contributes the least to the
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