Bojanala Platinum is one of the 4 districts of

North West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...

province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. The seat of Bojanala Platinum is

Rustenburg Rustenburg (; , Afrikaans and Dutch: ''City of Rest'') is a city at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range. Rustenburg is the most populous city in North West province, South Africa (549,575 in 2011 and 626,522 in the 2016 census). In 20 ...

. The majority of its 1,507,505 people speak

Setswana Tswana, also known by its native name , and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa by about 8.2 million people. It belongs to the Bantu language family within the Sotho-Tswana branch of Zon ...

(2011

Census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

). The district code is DC37.

Geography

Neighbours

Bojanala Platinum is surrounded by: * Waterberg (DC36) to the north *

Tshwane The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (also known as the City of Tshwane) () is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa. The Metropolitan area is centred on the city of Pr ...

(Pretoria) to the east *

West Rand The West Rand is the name of the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold ...

(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:

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011

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Gender

Ethnic group

Age

Politics

Election results

Election results for Bojanala Platinum in the

South African general election, 2004 General elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress (ANC) of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority. ...

. * Population 18 and over: 772,262 5.15% of total population * Total votes: 445,856 7.61% of total population * Voting % estimate: 57.73% votes as a % of population 18 and over

References

External links

Bojanala Platinum DM Official Website
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