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)^[1]	Population (2010 est.)^[2]	Pop. density (per km²)	HDI (2003)^[3]
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.

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

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

Siclike pages

References

↑ Stats in Brief, 2010 (PDF). Pretoria: Statistics South Africa. 2010. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-621-39563-1.
↑ Mid-year population estimates, 2010 (PDF) (Report). Statistics South Africa. 2010.
↑ Adelzadeh, Asghar; et al. South Africa Human Development Report 2003 (PDF). Cape Town: Oxford University Press. p. 282. ISBN 9780195784183. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 19 Januar 2016. Retrieved 1 Februar 2011. Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)