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Rankotea

Coordinates: 25°34′05″S 27°51′43″E / 25.568°S 27.862°E / -25.568; 27.862
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Rankotea
Rankotea is located in North West (South African province)
Rankotea
Rankotea
Rankotea is located in South Africa
Rankotea
Rankotea
Coordinates: 25°34′05″S 27°51′43″E / 25.568°S 27.862°E / -25.568; 27.862
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceNorth West
DistrictBojanala
MunicipalityMadibeng
Area
 • Total
4.03 km2 (1.56 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total
482
 • Density120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African99.2%
 • Coloured0.8%
First languages (2011)
 • Tswana88.1%
 • S. Ndebele3.3%
 • English2.7%
 • Venda2.3%
 • Other3.5%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)

Rankotea is a village located just outside the town of Brits in the North West province under the Madibeng municipality of South Africa. The village has a vanadium extracting mine called Bushveld Vametco located just before you enter the residence. A solar&battery is being built to supply 10% of the mine's power needs.[2] Bushveld Vametco mine provides the community of Rankotea with funds where they may need them like funding few students of Rankotea with university fees. It also has provided funds to renovate schools and clinics. The community includes a primary school named Rantsou and a secondary school named Ramadikela. It also have a power station named RoshCon. The residents use the health care service of the mobile clinic provided by Madibeng that comes once a month and during the month they use that of the community of Mothotlung. They also use the SAPS and Postal Office of Mothotlung.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Main Place Rankotea". Census 2011.
  2. ^ "South Africa: 300MW liquid metal battery storage deal, financial close for flow battery mini-grid at vanadium mine". Energy Storage News. 24 June 2022.