The Bushveld area offers excellent opportunities for hunting safaris. Many cattle farmers have switched to game-farming. Some of the biggest tourist attractions of the province are the Pilanesberg National Park, the Madikwe Game Reserve, Sun City and the Lost City. The main languages spoken here are Setswana, Afrikaans and isiXhosa. The human resource development levels in this province are low.
Poverty is acute in the rural areas.
The North-West is one of the important food baskets of South Africa. This is a summer-rainfall region with violent thunderstorms. Maize, sunflower and groundnuts are the biggest crops. Some of the largest cattle herds in the world are found near Vryburg. Marico is also cattle country.