Ritchie is a small town situated south of

Kimberley Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to: Places and historical events Australia Queensland * Kimberley, Queensland, a coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas South Australia * County of Kimberley, a cadastral unit in South Australia Ta ...

on the north bank of the Riet River in the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape ( ; ; ) is the largest and most sparsely populated Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley, South Africa, Kimberley. It includes ...

province of South Africa. The town, with a population of approximately 15,000, is in the

Sol Plaatje Local Municipality Sol Plaatje Municipality (; ) is a local municipality within the Frances Baard District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is named after Sol T. Plaatje. It includes the diamond mining city of Kimberley. Main place ...

, which forms part of the

Frances Baard District Municipality The Frances Baard District Municipality (; ), previously the Diamantveld District Municipality, is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Kimberley. As of 2022, the majority of its 434, ...

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the town of Ritchie proper has a population of 7,610, while the adjacent

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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 "

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", 45.4% as "

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" and 2.1% as "

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". 87.6% spoke

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as their

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, 6.3% spoke

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, 1.8% spoke

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and 1.6% spoke

Sotho Sotho may refer to: *Sotho people (or ''Basotho''), an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa, Lesotho and southern Botswana *Sotho language (''Sesotho'' or ''Southern Sotho''), a Bantu language spoken in southern Africa, an offi ...

References

{{Frances Baard District Municipality Populated places in the Sol Plaatje Local Municipality