RHRU North West Office Launch

5th September 2008

North West RHRU Office

Official Opening - RHRU Provincial Office in Mafekeng

Thank You to the Funders – USAID & PEPFAR

North West Province - Official Data

North West Population

= 3 669 349 (1994)

South Africa Total Population

= 44 819 778 (1994)

For more exciting info click on the link below:

http://www.tourismnorthwest.co.za

65% of people live in rural areas.

Go to the North West – Speak Setswana

The majority of the province's residents are the Tswana people who speak Setswana. Smaller groups include Afrikaans, Sotho, and Xhosa speaking people. English is spoken primarily as a second language.

Mmangwana o tshwara thipa ka fa bogaleng (Women or mothers will always sacrifice to protect their children) – Setswana proverb promoting testing.

Go babalesegile go dirisana le moratiwa a le mongwe fela (It is safer to have one sexual partner) – Setswana phrase promoting fidelity in a relationship.

Tswana Historical Figures Include…

Soloman (Sol) Plaatje: (1876 – 1932)

• Solomon Tsekisho Plaatje was a politician, journalist, human rights campaigner, novelist and translator at the turn of the 19th century - one of the most gifted and versatile black South Africans of his generation.

• Devoted his life to one cause: the struggle of the African people against injustice & dispossession.

• His diary of the events during the siege of Mafikeng is a valuable historical document, unique in its presentation of an African perspective.

• He was one of the most influential of early African newspaper editors and the first person ever to record Nkosi Sikelele i Africa.

Mining

Mining generates more than half of the province's gross domestic product and provides jobs for a quarter of its workforce.

Chief Mines and Minerals:•Orkney - Gold •Klerksdorp - Gold•Klerksdorp - Uranium•Rustenburg - Platinum•Brits - Platinum•Lichtenburg - Diamonds•Christiana - Diamonds•Bloemhof - Diamonds

Fun in the Sun

The entertainment and casino complex at Sun City and Nature Reserves such as Pilanesburg and Madikwe also contribute to the provincial economy.

Map of the North West

Location of Mines, Sun City, Game Reserves and Universities

HIV PREVALENCE: 2001 -2006

YEAR PREVALENCE

2001 25.2%

2002 26.2%

2003 29.9%

2004 26.7%

2005 31.8%

2006 29.0%

RHRU - HIV Treatment and Care Sites

RHRU’s Fun Loving North West Team