Provinces o Sooth Africae

Sooth Africae is currently dividit intae nine provinces. On the eve o the 1994 general election, Sooth Africae's umwhile hamelands, forby kent as Bantustans, wur reintegratit an the fower existin provinces wur dividit intae nine. The twalft, thirteent an sixteenth amendments tae the constitution chynged the borders o seiven o the provinces. The provinces are as follaes:

 Province Caipital Lairgest ceety Aurie (km²) Population (2010 est.) Pop. density (per km²) HDI (2003) Eastren Cape  Bhisho  Port Elizabeth  168,966  6,743,800  39.9  0.62 Free State  Bloemfontein  Bloemfontein  129,825  2,824,500  21.8  0.67 Gauteng  Johannesburg  Johannesburg  18,178  11,191,700  615.7  0.74 KwaZulu-Natal  Pietermaritzburg²  Durban  94,361  10,645,400  112.8  0.63 Limpopo  Polokwane  Polokwane  125,754  5,439,600  43.3  0.59 Mpumalanga  Nelspruit  Nelspruit  76,495  3,617,600  47.3  0.65 North Wast  Mafikeng  Rustenburg  104,882  3,200,900  30.5  0.61 Northren Cape  Kimberley  Kimberley  372,889  1,103,900  3.0  0.69 Wastren Cape¹  Cape Toun  Cape Toun  129,462  5,223,900  40.4  0.77

¹: The Prince Edward Islands, Sooth African territories in the sub-Antarctic Indie Ocean that are pairt o the Wastren Cape for legal purposes, are no includit in these statistics.

²: Pietermaritzburg an Ulundi wur joint caipitals o KwaZulu-Natal frae 1994 tae 2004.

400px|Map of South Africa showing the names of the provinces

 History 

Syne the establishin o the Union o Sooth Africae in 1910, Sooth Africae haed fower provinces consistin o the diveesions which existit prior tae the Seicont Boer War:  twa Breetish colonies (the Cape Colony an Natal Colony) an twa Boer republics (the Orange Free State an Transvaal Republic).  Segregation o the black population stairtit as early as 1913, wi awnership o land bi the black majority being restrictit tae certain auries totalin aboot 13% o the kintra.  Frae the late 1950s, these auries wur gradually consolidatit intae "hamelands" or "bantustans," which served as the de jure naitional states o the black population durin the apartheid era.  In 1976, the hameland o Transkei wis the first tae accept independence frae Sooth Africae, an although this unthirldom wis niver acknowledged bi ony ither kintra, three ither hamelands follaed suit.

 Provinces frae 1910 tae 1994 
Cape Province (Cape Toon)
Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
Orange Free State (Bloemfontein)
Transvaal (Pretoria)

 Independent Hamelands 
These Independent Hamelands wur kent as the TBVC States.
Transkei (Mthatha). Declared independent in 1976.
Bophuthatswana (Mmabatho). Declared independent in 1977.
Venda (Thohoyandou). Declared independent in 1979
Ciskei  (Bhisho). Declared independent in 1981.

 Non-Independent Hamelands 
Gazankulu  (Giyani)
KaNgwane  (Louieville)
KwaNdebele (Siyabuswa)
KwaZulu (Ulundi)
Lebowa (Lebowakgomo)
Qwaqwa (Phuthaditjhaba)

 Siclike pages 
 Elections in Sooth Africae
 Prince Edward Islands
 Walvis Bay
 ISO 3166-2:ZA

References


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