Bojanala Platinum District Municipality

Bojanala Platinum is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Bojanala Platinum is Rustenburg. The majority of its 1,507,505 people speak Setswana (2011 Census). The district code is DC37.

Bojanala Platinum
District municipality
Seal
Location in South Africa
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
Seat	Rustenburg
Local municipalities	List Moretele Madibeng Rustenburg Kgetlengrivier Moses Kotane
Government ^[1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Lj Diremelo
Area
• Total	18,333 km^2 (7,078 sq mi)
Population  (2011)^[2]
• Total	1,507,505
• Density	82/km^2 (210/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) ^[2]
• Black African	91.4%
• Coloured	0.7%
• Indian/Asian	0.6%
• White	7.0%
First languages (2011) ^[3]
• Tswana	55.3%
• Tsonga	8.1%
• Afrikaans	7.2%
• Xhosa	5.6%
• Other	23.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	DC37

Geography

Neighbours

Bojanala Platinum is surrounded by:

• Waterberg (DC36) to the north
• Tshwane (Pretoria) to the east
• West Rand (CBDC8) to the south-east
• Dr Kenneth Kaunda (DC40) to the south
• Ngaka Modiri Molema (DC38) to the west

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:

Local municipality	Population	%	Dominant language
Rustenburg	549 575	36.46%	Tswana
Madibeng	447,381	29.68%	Tswana
Moses Kotane	242,554	16.09%	Tswana
Moretele	186,947	12.40%	Tswana
Kgetlengrivier	51,049	3.39%	Tswana

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

Language	Population	%
Setswana	818,050	55.34%
Xitsonga	119,090	8.06%
Afrikaans	106,561	7.21%
IsiXhosa	82,701	5.59%
Sepedi	75,539	5.11%
Sesotho	67,458	4.56%
English	57,187	3.87%
IsiZulu	54,661	3.70%
Other	39,869	2.70%
IsiNdebele	26,481	1.79%
Tshivenda	14,329	0.97%
SiSwati	9,632	0.65%

Gender

Gender	Population	%
Male	794,529	52.70%
Female	712,977	47.30%

Ethnic group

Ethnic group	Population	%
Black African	1,093,177	92.23%
White	82,045	6.92%
Coloured	6,360	0.54%
Indian/Asian	3,743	0.32%

Age

Age	Population	%
000 - 004	108,805	9.18%
005 - 009	113,058	9.54%
010 - 014	121,707	10.27%
015 - 019	115,306	9.73%
020 - 024	110,477	9.32%
025 - 029	111,264	9.39%
030 - 034	98,631	8.32%
035 - 039	93,814	7.91%
040 - 044	81,984	6.92%
045 - 049	62,264	5.25%
050 - 054	44,466	3.75%
055 - 059	34,288	2.89%
060 - 064	27,783	2.34%
065 - 069	21,309	1.80%
070 - 074	16,438	1.39%
075 - 079	10,575	0.89%
080 - 084	7,800	0.66%
085 - 089	3,115	0.26%
090 - 094	1,424	0.12%
095 - 099	614	0.05%
100 plus	203	0.02%

Politics

Election results

Election results for Bojanala Platinum in the South African general election, 2004.

• Population 18 and over: 772,262 [65.15% of total population]
• Total votes: 445,856 [37.61% of total population]
• Voting % estimate: 57.73% votes as a % of population 18 and over

Party	Votes	%
African National Congress	372,834	83.62%
Democratic Alliance	25,214	5.66%
United Christian Democratic Party	20,370	4.57%
United Democratic Movement	7,472	1.68%
African Christian Democratic Party	5,085	1.14%
Freedom Front Plus	4,022	0.90%
Pan African Congress	2,964	0.66%
New National Party	1,597	0.36%
Independent Democrats	1,426	0.32%
Inkhata Freedom Party	1,384	0.31%
Azanian People's Organisation	996	0.22%
NA	477	0.11%
SOPA	424	0.10%
EMSA	346	0.08%
CDP	293	0.07%
UF	268	0.06%
PJC	190	0.04%
TOP	187	0.04%
KISS	122	0.03%
Minority Front	100	0.02%
NLP	85	0.02%
Total	445,856	100.00%

References

1. . Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

External links

• Bojanala Platinum DM Official Website

Coordinates: 25°25′S 27°15′E / 25.417°S 27.250°E / -25.417; 27.250