Editing Rustenburg (section)

===Post-Apartheid===
The township of Boitekong on the northeast side of Rustenburg has one of the highest incidences of [[HIV/AIDS in South Africa|AIDS]] orphans in South Africa<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/72-000-new-infections-in-6-months-20101201 |title=72 000 new infections in 6 months |publisher=News24 |date=1 December 2010 |access-date=7 May 2012}}</ref> Rustenburg was the venue for World AIDS Day commemoration in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461&sid=14998&tid=25252 |title=M Masike: World AIDS Day (English) |publisher=Info.gov.za |access-date=7 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328122236/http://www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461&sid=14998&tid=25252 |archive-date=28 March 2012 }}</ref> 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]], the water from which was for decades considered too toxic for human consumption until water shortages in the nineties compelled the purification and supply to Boitekong. Life for the majority under the rule of the 'Royal Bafokeng' has parallels to the apartheid era.  In the Apartheid era, forced removals of old settlements were on the basis of racial divide whereas now it is done for installation of massive mining operations sometimes engulfing entire villages.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

The Royal Bafokeng company own the stadium selected as a World Cup 2010 venue, the only 'private' stadium that hosted games in the 2010 World cup. The Royal Bafokeng regard themselves as a 'separate nation' which is in contradiction to the [[Rainbow nation]] espoused by Desmond Tutu and [[Nelson Mandela]]. This 'nationhood' is regarded by many today{{who|date=October 2018}} as a [[divide and rule]] tactic orchestrated by the mining conglomerates which has subsequently led to the calls for [[nationalization]] of the mining industry by the [[ANC Youth League]]. The majority of people in the region 20 years after the fall of apartheid still live in abject poverty despite the massive profits yielded by the platinum royalties. This has led in recent years to claims of kleptocracy against the 'royal' family and [[land claim]] disputes.{{Original research inline|date=October 2018}}

Agriculture in the region has been in constant decline since the decimation of the vast citrus estates of Rustenburg in the 1970s and 1980s due to pollution from increased smelting and beneficiating processes by mines. There are only a fraction of the original citrus farms remaining.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

In 1990, the first post-Apartheid conference between the [[Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk]] (the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa) and the South African churches was held in Rustenburg. During this conference, professor Willie Jonker of the University of Stellenbosch made this confession on behalf of the entire DRC:
<blockquote>"[I] confess before you and before the Lord, not only my own sin and guilt,
and my personal responsibility for the political, social, economic and structural wrongs that have been done to many of you and the results [from] which you and our whole country are still suffering, but vicariously I dare also to do that in the name of the NGK [the white DRC], of which I am a member, and for the Afrikaans people as a whole."<ref>{{Cite book
  | last1 = Tutu
  | first1 = Desmond
  | first2 = John
  | last2 = Allen
  | title = The Rainbow People of God:The Making of a Peaceful Revolution
  | publisher = Doubleday
  | year = 1994
  | location = New York
  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rainbowpeopleofg00tutu/page/221 221–225]
  | isbn = 0-385-47546-2
  | url-access = registration
  | url = https://archive.org/details/rainbowpeopleofg00tutu/page/221
  }}
</ref></blockquote>
The conference finally resulted in the signing of the Rustenburg Declaration, which moved strongly toward complete confession, forgiveness, and restitution.<ref>{{cite web
 |title       = The Rustenburg Declaration
 |year        = 1990
 |url         = http://www.ngkerk.org.za/abid/dokumente/amptelikkestukke/Rustenburg%20Declaration%201990.pdf
 |access-date  = 13 December 2010
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721042956/http://www.ngkerk.org.za/abid/dokumente/amptelikkestukke/Rustenburg%20Declaration%201990.pdf
 |archive-date = 21 July 2011
}}</ref>