The provinces of the South Africa are the nine subdivisions of the country introduced since the end of the Apartheid:

1. the Cape-Westerner ( Western Wraps Province , the Cape)
2. the Cape-of-North ( Northern Cape Province , Kimberley)
3. the Cape-Eastern ( Eastern Cape Province , Bisho)
4. the KwaZulu-Native ( KwaZulu-Native Province , Pietermaritzburg and Ulundi)
5. the State-Free ( Free State Province , Bloemfontein)
6. the North-western ( North West Province , Mafikeng)
7. the Gauteng ( Gauteng Province , Johannesburg)
8. the Mpumalanga ( Mpumalanga Province , Nelspruit)
9. the Limpopo (province) ( Limpopo Province , Polokwane)

This territorial installation represents an important modification of the old system of Bantoustan S. Those are reinstated at the provincial level of the South-African government (formerly reserved for the Blanc S), while preserving for the majority a clean character ethno-linguistics. For example, one eliminated the Bantustan from Bophuthatswana, indicated by the government apartheid for the people Tswana, while the borders of the current province of the North-western preserve a tswana majority at it.

Of the same way, the State Libre is mainly Sotho and Cape-Eastern the very largely Xhosa. The KwaZulu-Native remainder the cradle of the major parts of the Zulu people and the Asian of South Africa. The provinces of the Cape-Westerner and Cape-of-North are mainly populated by Afrikaans known as of color, but the minorities xhosa and English E are important there. The three formed provinces of old the Transvaal (Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and Gauteng) are diversified on the plan ethnolinguistic. Gauteng includes/understands the great urban centres of Johannesbourg and Pretoria, which for a long time attracted minors and technicians of various origins.

Modifications

Some provinces knew a change of name since their formation. The provisional names of Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo were in an original manner “Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging”, the “Transvaal of the East”, and the “Transvaal of North”. This last was called a few years “the Province of North”, before the adoption of the name of “Limpopo”. A name change projected for theEastern one seems to have been abandoned.

The 12th amendment of the constitution changed the borders of the provinces in December 2005.

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List of the leaders of the South-African provinces

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