The the Cape Province was one of the 4 old provinces of the South Africa between 1910 and 1994.

The Cape Province was founded in 1910 within the news Union of South Africa and gathered the old colonies and British protectorates known under the names of Colonie of the Cape, Stellaland, Griqualand, New Republic, Bechuanaland Britannique.

Its capital was the Cape, the city-mother of South Africa, and the principal cities were Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, East London, Grahamstown, Upington, Oudtshoorn, George, Stellenbosh, Swellendam, Mossel Bay, Graaff-Reinet, King William' S Town, Queenstown…

The province was initially delimited towards the East by the Natal, towards the North-East by the Lesotho (Basutholand), the free State of Orange and the Transvaal and in north by the Botswana (Bechuanaland) and the Namibia (South-western African).

From 1948 and installation of Bantustan within the framework of the installation of the policy of Apartheid, its borders towards the east were modified with the creation of the territories plugs of the Ciskei and the Transkei, gathering the majority of the blacks of ethnos groups Xhosa S of the province. Starting from this black extraction, the white and the mongrels became largely majority in the province.

In 1994, the Cape Province is reunified with its Bantustans then divided into 4 new provinces: the Cape-Westerner, the Cape-Eastern , the Cape-of-North and a part is integrated in the province of the North-West.