# West Rand District Municipality

The West Rand District Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Sedika wa West Rand; Afrikaans: Wesrand-distriksmunisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala weSithili sase West Rand; Sotho: Masepala wa Setereke wa West Rand) 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.

## Geography
### Neighbours

West Rand is surrounded by:
* Bojanala Platinum (DC37) to the north
* Tshwane (Pretoria) to the north-east
* Johannesburg to the east
* Sedibeng (DC42) to the south-east
* Dr Kenneth Kaunda (DC40) to the south-west

### Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:
| Name | Code | Seat | Area (km²) | Population (2016) | Pop. density (per km²) |
| Merafong City | GT484 | Carletonville | 1,631 | 188,843 | 115.8 |
| Mogale City | GT481 | Krugersdorp | 1,342 | 383,864 | 286.0 |
| Rand West City | GT485 | Randfontein | 1,115 | 265,887 | 238.5 |

## Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.
| Language | Population | % |
| Tswana | 215 507 | 24.96% |
| Afrikaans | 126 338 | 16.98% |
| Xhosa | 123 501 | 16.60% |
| Sotho | 86 236 | 11.59% |
| Zulu | 63 541 | 8.54% |
| Tsonga | 38 410 | 5.16% |
| English | 35 811 | 4.81% |
| Northern Sotho | 22 618 | 3.04% |
| Other | 10 587 | 1.42% |
| Swati | 9 918 | 1.33% |
| Venda | 8 927 | 1.20% |
| Ndebele | 2 759 | 0.37% |

### Gender

| Gender | Population | % |
| Male | 400 157 | 53.77% |
| Female | 344 011 | 46.23% |

### Ethnic group

| Ethnic group | Population | % |
| Black African | 587 665 | 78.84% |
| White | 132 849 | 17.85% |
| Coloured | 17 531 | 2.36% |
| Indian/Asian | 7 123 | 0.96% |

### Age

| Age | Population | % |
| 000 - 004 | 63 062 | 8.47% |
| 005 - 009 | 55 983 | 7.52% |
| 010 - 014 | 55 746 | 7.49% |
| 015 - 019 | 58 721 | 7.89% |
| 020 - 024 | 72 868 | 9.79% |
| 025 - 029 | 82 601 | 11.10% |
| 030 - 034 | 77 616 | 10.43% |
| 035 - 039 | 76 425 | 10.27% |
| 040 - 044 | 65 412 | 8.79% |
| 045 - 049 | 46 479 | 6.25% |
| 050 - 054 | 31 153 | 4.19% |
| 055 - 059 | 19 826 | 2.66% |
| 060 - 064 | 14 459 | 1.94% |
| 065 - 069 | 9 058 | 1.22% |
| 070 - 074 | 6 526 | 0.88% |
| 075 - 079 | 4 177 | 0.56% |
| 080 - 084 | 2 561 | 0.34% |
| 085 - 089 | 897 | 0.12% |
| 090 - 094 | 395 | 0.05% |
| 095 - 099 | 130 | 0.02% |
| 100 plus | 73 | 0.01% |

## Politics
### Election results

Election results for the West Rand District Municipality in the 2021 South African municipal elections.
| Party | Votes | % |
| African National Congress | 79 559 | 43.82% |
| Democratic Alliance | 48 337 | 26.62% |
| Economic Freedom Fighters | 28 508 | 15.70% |
| Freedom Front Plus | 11 749 | 6.47% |
| African Independent Congress | 2 779 | 1.53% |
| Patriotic Alliance | 1 978 | 1.09% |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 1 693 | 0.93% |
| African Transformation Movement | 1 178 | 0.65% |
| Pan Africanist Congress of Azania | 1 134 | 0.62% |
| United Democratic Movement | 1 017 | 0.56% |
| Congress Of The People | 950 | 0.52% |
| Randfontein Peoples Party | 854 | 0.47% |
| Forum 4 Service Delivery | 653 | 0.36% |
| National Freedom Party | 415 | 0.23% |
| Activists Movement of South Africa | 339 | 0.19% |
| Justice And Employment Party | 318 | 0.18% |
| African Covenant | 114 | 0.06% |
| Total | 181 575 | 100.00% |