Bojanala Platinum District Municipality

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.

Bojanala Platinum
District municipality
Seal
Location in South Africa
Coordinates: 25°25′S 27°15′E
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
Seat	Rustenburg
Local municipalities	List Moretele Madibeng Rustenburg Kgetlengrivier Moses Kotane
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Lj Diremelo
Area
• Total	18,333 km2 (7,078 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	1,507,505
• Density	82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2022) [2]
• Black African	75.4%
• Coloured	2.7%
• Indian/Asian	1.1%
• White	10.7%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Tswana	55.3%
• Tsonga	3.1%
• Afrikaans	3.2%
• Xhosa	1.6%
• Other	23.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	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 municipality	Population	%	Dominant language
Rustenburg	562 031	34.60%	Tswana
Madibeng	522 566	32.17%	Tswana
Moses Kotane	265 668	16.35%	Tswana
Moretele	219 120	13.49%	Tswana
Kgetlengrivier	54 759	3.37%	Tswana

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

Language	Population	%
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%
Other	39,869	2.70%
IsiNdebele	26,481	1.79%
Tshivenda	14,329	0.97%
SiSwati	9,632	0.65%

Gender

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

Ethnic group

Ethnic group	Population	%
Black African	1,093,177	92.23%
White	320700	6.92%
Coloured	6,360	0.54%
Indian/Asian	3,743	0.32%

Age

Age	Population	%
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

Party	Votes	%
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.^[3]