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Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
District municipality in North West, South Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bojanala Platinum District Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Sedika wa Bojanala Platinum) 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.
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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:
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Demographics
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The following statistics are from the 2011 census.
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Age
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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
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.[3]
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