Ritchie is a small town situated south of
Kimberley
Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to:
Places and historical events
Australia
* Kimberley (Western Australia)
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley
* Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania
* Kimberley, Tasmania a small town
* County of Kimberley, a ...
on the north bank of the
Riet River in the
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...
province of South Africa. The town, with a population of approximately 15,000, is in the
Sol Plaatje Local Municipality
The Sol Plaatje Local Municipality is a local municipality in the Frances Baard District Municipality district of the Northern Cape province, South Africa, named after Sol T. Plaatje. It includes the diamond mining city of Kimberley.
Main place ...
, which forms part of the
Frances Baard District Municipality.
Demographics
According to the
2011 census, the town of Ritchie proper has a population of 7,610, while the adjacent
township of Motswedimosa has a population of 7,240, giving the urban area a population of 14,850. Of this population 50.9% described themselves as "
Black African", 45.4% as "
Coloured
Coloureds ( af, Kleurlinge or , ) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in Southern Africa who may have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including African, European, and Asian. South ...
" and 2.1% as "
White". 87.6% spoke
Afrikaans as their
home language, 6.3% spoke
Tswana, 1.8% spoke
Xhosa and 1.6% spoke
Sotho.
References
{{Frances Baard District Municipality
Populated places in the Sol Plaatje Local Municipality