Sarah Baartman District Municipality is situated in the western portion of the Eastern Cape province, covering an area of 58 242 square kilometres. The area of the district municipality includes nine local municipalities. The seat of Sarah Baartman is the city of Port Elizabeth, although Port Elizabeth is not itself in the district . The largest languages among the 388,201 people are Xhosa and Afrikaans. . The district code is DC10.The municipality is a new, multi-ethnic administration, formed by the ANC government through the merging of the predominantly Afrikaans-speaking western part of the Eastern Cape, together with Xhosa areas near the Fish river, and the English district of Albany .In 2015, Cacadu District was renamed for Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman who was brought to London to perform at freak shows and after death her body parts were exhibited until 1974. The renaming is part of an effort to redress marginalisation of the Khoikhoi people.
