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South Africa is currently divided into nine provinces. On the eve of the 1994 General Election , South Africa's former homelands were reintegrated and the four existing provinces were divided into nine. In December 2005 the 12th amendment of the Constitution changed the borders of seven of the provinces. The provinces (numbered corresponding with the map to the right and with the capital in parenthesis) are as follows: # Western Cape ¹ ( Cape Town ) # Northern Cape ( Kimberley ) # Eastern Cape ( Bisho ) # KwaZulu-Natal ( Pietermaritzburg ²) # Free State ( Bloemfontein ) # North West ( Mafikeng ) # Gauteng ( Johannesburg ) # Mpumalanga ( Nelspruit ) # Limpopo ( Polokwane ) ¹: The Prince Edward Islands are a South African territory, for legal purposes considered to be part of the Western Cape. ²: Pietermaritzburg and Ulundi shared being capital of KwaZulu-Natal during 1994–2004. HISTORY Since the establishing of the colonies (the Cape Colony and Natal Colony ) and two Boer republics (the Orange Free State and Transvaal Republic ). Segregation of the Black population started as early as 1913, with ownership of land by the black majority being restricted to certain areas totaling about 13% of the country. From the late 1950s, these areas were gradually consolidated into " Homeland s" or " Bantustan s," which served as the '' De Jure '' national states of the black population during the Apartheid era. In 1976, the homeland of Transkei was the first to accept Independence from South Africa, and although this independence was never acknowledged by any other country, three other homelands followed suit. Provinces
Independent Homelands These were known as the TBVC states
Non-Independent Homelands
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