Bojanala Platinum District Municipality

District municipality in North West, South Africa

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.

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:

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

Gender

Ethnic group

Age

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]

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. Staff Writer. "Municipality paid R2 million for two laptops". MyBroadband. Retrieved 2023-11-10.

External links

• Bojanala Platinum DM Official Website