Seraleng, Rustenburg, South Africa

Popularly known as the city of Rest. Rustenburg is the most populous city in North West province, South Africa.

In 2017, the city's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reached 63.8 billion South African Rand. Accounting for 21.1% of the GDP of the North West Province, and 1.28% of the GDP of South Africa. Rustenburg's population is primarily Tswana people. Partially belonging to the Royal Bafokeng Nation, extensive landowners earning royalties from mining operations.

The Royal Bafokeng are descendants of Sotho settlers who displaced the local tribes. In the early 1800s, the Bafokeng and other Tswana communities were conquered in a series of devastating wars launched by an offshoot of the Zulu kingdom, called the Matebele. Rustenburg was established in 1851 as an administrative centre for an Afrikaner farming area.

Rustenburg was the home of Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, who bought a 5 square kilometer farm to the north-west of the town in 1863. The homestead on his farm, Boekenhoutfontein, is now the Paul Kruger Country Museum. Platinum mining in Rustenburg began in 1929, shortly after the discovery of the Platinum Reef by Hans Merensky, later named the Merensky Reef.

The mine is located about 3 km from the town centre and owned and managed by the Anglo American. The township of Boitekong on the northeast side of Rustenburg has one of the highest incidences of AIDS orphans in South Africa.The township is in a geographical area which bears the brunt of the catchment area of the toxic effects of the mining industry coupled with a very poor quality of water supply from the local Bospoort Dam.

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