Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
The Bojanala Platinum District Municipality 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 to the north;
- Tshwane to the east;
- West Rand to the south-east;
- Dr Kenneth Kaunda to the south;
- Ngaka Modiri Molema 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% |
Politics
Election results
Election results for Bojanala Platinum in the South African general election, 2004.- Population 18 and over: 772,262
- Total votes: 445,856
- 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% |