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Media accreditation applications for SOPA 2020 now open
Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Mahikeng – The North West Provincial Legislature (NWPL) will host the State of the Province Address (SOPA) which will be delivered by North West Premier, Professor Tebogo Job Mokgoro during the official opening of the NWPL which will be presided over by NWPL Speaker, Hon. Sussana Dantjie on Friday, 21 February 2020 at the NWPL Chambers - Mmabatho...Read more

Speech by North West Premier, Prof Tebogo Job Mokgoro, at the announcement of the North West Province National Senior Certificate (nsc) examination results at the Fields Secondary school in Rustenburg
Wednesday, 08 January 2020

Bagaetsho, dumelang.
Allow me to first and foremost refer to the words of the late President Nelson Mandela when he said “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation”. ...Read more

Fraud and corruption have become one of the biggest hindrances to economic and social development – Premier Mokgoro
Friday, 15 November 2019

Mahikeng – “Fraud and corruption pose a serious threat to human and economic development as it creates instability in public institutions and goes a long way in undermining the rule of law, democratic values and society at large”...Read more

North West Provincial Government to commemorate Fraud Awareness Week
Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Mahikeng – North West Provincial Government in partnership with Madibeng and City of Matlosana Local Municipalities is to commemorate the Fraud Awareness Week by hosting Anti-Corruption and Ethics Road Show to highlight the problem of fraud and corruption....Read more

Annual Mahika-Mahikeng Cultural Music Festival to take a gap year
Wednesday, 06 November 2019

Mahikeng: The annual Mahika-Mahikeng Cultural Music Festival which started four years ago, will this year take a gap year, so as to allow the North West Provincial Government to deliver a repackaged quality music and cultural festival next year.....Read more

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North West Province is bordered by Botswana in the north and is fringed by the Kalahari desert in the west, Gauteng to the east, and the Free State to the south. It is known as the "Platinum Province", owing to its wealth of this precious metal. The province has a population of 3,2 million people who mainly speak Setswana. Mahikeng (previously Mafeking) is the capital,well-known for the famous siege which took place in October 1899 during the Anglo-Boer/South African War.

The mainstay of the economy of North West Province is mining, which generates more than half of the province's gross domestic product and provides jobs for a quarter of its workforce. The chief minerals are gold, mined at Orkney and Klerksdorp; uranium, mined at Klerksdorp; platinum, mined at Rustenburg and Brits; and diamonds, mined at Lichtenburg, Christiana, and Bloemhof.

The northern and western parts of the province have many sheep farms and cattle and game ranches. The eastern and southern parts are crop-growing regions that produce maize (corn), sunflowers, tobacco, cotton, and citrus fruits. The entertainment and casino complex at Sun City and Lost City also contributes to the provincial economy.