Westonaria Local Municipality
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Westonaria Local Municipality is a local municipality
in West Rand District Municipality
, Gauteng
, South Africa
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The mining industry represents the largest employment sector in the municipality. The unemployment rate is approximately 30%. In 2007, 34% of households had access to piped water inside their homes, an improvement of 14 percentage points since 2001. Electricity is used for lighting, cooking, and heating in about 65% of households.
Urban areas include the following:
Other settlements include:
Local municipality (South Africa)
In South Africa, a local municipality or Category B municipality is a type of municipality that serves as the third, and most local, tier of local government...
in West Rand District Municipality
West Rand District Municipality
The West Rand District Municipality is one of the districts of Gauteng province of South Africa, that covers the West Rand area, with the exception of Roodepoort. The seat of the district municipality is Randfontein. The most spoken language of its 744 168 people is Setswana...
, Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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The mining industry represents the largest employment sector in the municipality. The unemployment rate is approximately 30%. In 2007, 34% of households had access to piped water inside their homes, an improvement of 14 percentage points since 2001. Electricity is used for lighting, cooking, and heating in about 65% of households.
Settlements in Westonaria Local Municipality
Various urban areas and mining villages are dispersed across the entire municipal area.Urban areas include the following:
- Westonaria
- BekkersdalBekkersdal, GautengBekkersdal is a township situated 7 km east of Westonaria and 14 km south of Randfontein in the Gauteng province. It was established in 1945 to house Africans who worked in town and at the surrounding gold mines. In 1983 the township was granted municipal status....
- Simunye
- Venterspost
- Glen Harvie
- Hills Haven
- Wagterskop Extension 2
- Nufcor (private township)
- Libanon (mining village)
- Waterpan (mining village)
Other settlements include:
- Cooke Mine
- Dennydale SH
- Elsburg Gold Mine
- Etlebeni
- Ghana Section
- Glen Harvie Ext 1
- Glen Harvie Ext 2
- Glen Harvie Ext 3
- Holomisa Section
- Kloof Gold Mine
- Leeudoorn Mine
- Lenz
- Mandela Section
- Panvlak Gold Mine
- Randfontein Mine
- Seberuberung
- Skierlik Section
- Spoke Town
- Tambo Section
- Thabony
- Uptown Section
- Vanderbijlpark NU
- West Rand Garden AH
- Westonaria NU
- X-Section