Cape Province

Coordinates: 31°00′S 22°00′E / 31.000°S 22.000°E / -31.000; 22.000
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This article is about the defunct province of South Africa. For the biogeographic area, see
Cape Province (IMCRA region)
.
Province of the Cape of Good Hope
Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop (
Afrikaans)
Province of South Africa
1910–1994
of Cape province
Coat of arms

The Cape Province as it was by 1994
CapitalCape Town
Population 
• 1991
6,125,335[1]
 • TypeCape Provincial Council
History 
• Established
31 May 1910
• Disestablished
27 April 1994
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Cape Colony
Western Cape
Eastern Cape
Northern Cape
North West province

The Province of the Cape of Good Hope

Cape Colony, as well as Walvis Bay, and had Cape Town as its capital. In 1994, the Cape Province was divided into the new Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces, along with part of the North West
.

History

When the

Cape Colony
was renamed the Cape Province.

It was by far the largest of South Africa's four provinces, as it contained regions it had previously annexed, such as

Kokstad) and Griqualand West (area around Kimberley
). As a result, it encompassed two-thirds of South Africa's territory, and covered an area of approximately 717,000 square kilometres (277,000 sq mi).

At the time of the formation of the

Natal, Orange Free State
and the Cape Province.

Cape Franchise

Main article: Cape Qualified Franchise

Before union, the

white rule
. After union, the Cape Province was permitted to keep a restricted version of its multi-racial qualified franchise, and thus became the only province where
Coloureds (mixed-race people) and Black Africans could vote.[3][4]

Over the following years, successive acts were passed to erode this colour-blind voters roll. In 1931, the restricting franchise qualifications were removed for white voters, but kept for Black and Coloured voters.[5] In 1956, the Apartheid government removed all remaining suffrage rights for "non-whites". The government had to appoint many extra senators in parliament to force through this change.[6]

Partitioning under Apartheid

During the

TBVC States and the six Non-Independent Homelands.[citation needed
]

In the Cape Province, the

Natal Province after Transkei was declared independent, since it was cut off from the rest of the province. With the 1994 adoption of the Interim Constitution, these homelands were re-incorporated into South Africa,[7] both part of the new Eastern Cape
province.

Post-apartheid

After the first fully democratic elections in April 1994, the Transkei and Ciskei bantustans were reunited with Cape Province, then the country was divided into what are now the current nine provinces of South Africa. Cape Province was broken up into three smaller provinces: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape. Parts of it were also absorbed into the North West. Walvis Bay, a territory of the original Cape Colony, had been ceded to Namibia two months earlier.

Districts in 1991

Districts of the province and population at the 1991 census.[1]

Administrators

Main article: List of administrators of former South African provinces § Cape Province

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Census > 1991 > RSA > Variable Description > Person file > District code". Statistics South Africa – Nesstar WebView. Archived from the original on 19 June 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  2. South Africa Act, 1909 §6 (Wikisource
    )
  3. ^ "EISA South Africa: White domination and Black resistance (1881-1948)". Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2006. Retrieved 6 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "EISA South Africa: Historical franchise arrangements". Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  6. ^ Christoph Marx: Oxwagon Sentinel: Radical Afrikaner Nationalism and the History of the Ossewabrandwag. LIT Verlag Münster, 2009. p.61.
  7. ^ a b "The Homelands". South African History Online. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 182.
  9. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 200.
  10. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 205.
  11. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 478.

External links

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