The Bojanala Platinum District Municipality () is one of the 4 districts of the North West province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Rustenburg. As of 2011, a majority of its 1,507,505 residents spoke Setswana. The district code is 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 municipalityPopulation%Dominant languageRustenburg 562 031 34.60%TswanaMadibeng 522 566 32.17%TswanaMoses Kotane 265 668 16.35%TswanaMoretele 219 120 13.49%TswanaKgetlengrivier 54 759 3.37%Tswana

Demographics The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

LanguagePopulation%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%Other39,869 2.70%IsiNdebele 26,481 1.79%Tshivenda 14,329 0.97%SiSwati 9,632 0.65%

Gender GenderPopulation%Male 825,065 50.80%Female 799,079 49.30%

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

Age AgePopulation%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 PartyVotes%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%

Corruption In October 2023, the Hawks arrested the council's municipal manager, who was implicated in corruption involving R134 million, including spending R2 million on two laptops.

References

External links Bojanala Platinum DM Official Website