This “Diamond Capital of the World” is the seat of the Northern cape Provincial Administartion and the seat for the offices of the Frances Baard District Municipality. Sol Plaatje Municipality is found in the City of Kimberley on the N12 Highway from Gauteng to theWestern cape Province. The Sol Plaatje Municipality is named after the famous writer and First Secretary General of the African National Congress, Solomon “Sol” Thekiso Plaatje. Sol Plaatje is the largest municipality in the Frances Baard District Municipality with 201,464 inhabitants (see figure 5). The economy of Sol Plaatje is based on the following sectors: Agriculture, Community Development, Construction, Financial, Manufacturing, Mining, Private Households, Communicative Services, Retail and Informal Sectors. The aforementioned sectors account for 45,992 jobs created amongst the economically active population.