West Rand District Municipality


The West Rand District Municipality is one of the districts of the Gauteng province of South Africa, that covers the West Rand area, with the exception of Roodepoort. The seat of the district municipality is Randfontein. As of 2011, the most spoken language among its population of 820,995 is Tswana. The district code is CBDC8.
WWW wrdm.gov.za

Geography

Neighbours

West Rand is surrounded by:

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:
NameCodeSeatArea
Population
Pop. density
Merafong CityGT484Carletonville1,631188,843115.8
Mogale CityGT481Krugersdorp1,342383,864286.0
Rand West CityGT485Randfontein1,115265,887238.5

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.
LanguagePopulation%
Tswana215 50724.96%
Afrikaans126 33816.98%
Xhosa123 50116.60%
Sotho86 23611.59%
Zulu63 5418.54%
Tsonga38 4105.16%
English35 8114.81%
Northern Sotho22 6183.04%
Other10 5871.42%
Swati9 9181.33%
Venda8 9271.20%
Ndebele2 7590.37%

Politics

Election results

Election results for the West Rand District Municipality in the 2021 South African municipal elections.
PartyVotes%
African National Congress79 55943.82%
Democratic Alliance48 33726.62%
Economic Freedom Fighters28 50815.70%
Freedom Front Plus11 7496.47%
African Independent Congress2 7791.53%
Patriotic Alliance1 9781.09%
African Christian Democratic Party1 6930.93%
African Transformation Movement1 1780.65%
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania1 1340.62%
United Democratic Movement1 0170.56%
Congress Of The People9500.52%
Randfontein Peoples Party8540.47%
Forum 4 Service Delivery6530.36%
National Freedom Party4150.23%
Activists Movement of South Africa3390.19%
Justice And Employment Party3180.18%
African Covenant1140.06%
Total181 575100.00%