North West Province

Area	116,320 km²
Population (2001)	3,669,349
Languages	Setswana (65.36%) Afrikaans (7.51%) isiXhosa (5.85%) Sesotho (5.70%) Xitsonga (4.71%) Sepedi (4.18%) isiZulu (2.52%) isiNdebele (1.34%) English (1.16%)
Races	Black (91.5%) White (6.7%) Coloured (1.6%) Indian/Asian (0.3%)
Capital	Mafikeng
Premier (List)	Edna Molewa (ANC)

North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. It was created after the end of Apartheid in 1994, and includes parts of the former Transvaal province and Cape Province, as well as most of the former Bantustan of Bophuthatswana. To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 10,000 km² and 100,000 km². ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Tswana, also known as Setswana, is a Bantu language. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. ... Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. ... Sesotho is a language spoken in southern Africa. ... The Tsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people, also known as the Shangaan. ... Northern Sotho, Sepedi, or Sesotho sa Leboa, is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data), mostly in the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga. ... Zulu (isiZulu in Zulu), is a language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa. ... The Ndebele language, or isiNdebele, or Sindebele, is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the AmaNdebele (the Ndebele people). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about the color black; for other uses, see topic Black (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogeneous group of people of mixed Khoisan, white European descent, Malay, Malagasy, Black (Bantu), and South Indian ancestry, especially in the Western Cape. ... Mafikeng is the capital of the North West Province, South Africa, 870 miles NE of Cape Town and 492 miles SSW of Bulawayo by rail, and 162 miles in a direct line W by N of Johannesburg. ... The following table presents a listing of Premiers of South African provinces. ... This is a list of Premiers of North West Province: See also South Africa Politics of South Africa List of Premiers of South African provinces Category: ... The African National Congress (ANC) is a centre-left political party, and has been South Africas governing party supported by a tripartite alliance between itself, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. ... A map of the nine provinces of South Africa South Africa is currently divided into nine provinces. ... Mafikeng is the capital of the North West Province, South Africa, 870 miles NE of Cape Town and 492 miles SSW of Bulawayo by rail, and 162 miles in a direct line W by N of Johannesburg. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Flag of Transvaal The Transvaal (lit. ... Under the Union of South Africa and after that under the Republic of South Africa, the old Cape Colony became the Cape of Good Hope Province (though it was commonly known as the Cape Province). ... Map of the black homelands in South Africa as of 1986 Map of the black homelands in Namibia as of 1978 Bantustan refers to any of the territories designated as tribal homelands for black South Africans and Namibians during the apartheid era. ... Flag of Bophuthatswana Bophuthatswana was a former Bantustan (homeland) in the north of South Africa. ...

Map showing predominant home languages in the province.

South Africa has 11 official languages, which is second in numbers only to India. ...

See also

• List of cities and towns in the North West Province
• Provinces of South Africa

This is a list of cities and towns in the North West Province of South Africa. ... A map of the nine provinces of South Africa South Africa is currently divided into nine provinces. ...

External links

• A history and description of the North West Province

Provinces of South Africa

Eastern Cape | Free State | Gauteng | KwaZulu-Natal | Limpopo | Mpumalanga | Northern Cape | North West | Western Cape