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Капска провинция Провинцията Нос Добра надежда (на английски Cape of Good Hope Province), наричана обикновено Капска провинция (на английски Cape Province) е бивша провинция в Южноафриканския съюз и впоследствие в Южноафриканската република. Тя включва старата Капска колония. Нейна столица е Кейптаун. Създадена е през 1910 г., когато е образуван Южноафриканският съюз, и включва първоначалната Капска колония и други райони като Британска Бечуаналенд (която не трябва да се обърква с Бечуаналендския протекторат, сега Ботсвана), Грикваленд Изток (областта около Кокстад) и Грикваленд Запад (областта около Кимбърли). По времето на образуването на Южноафриканския съюз целият район, който сега се нарича Южна Африка, се състои само от четири провинции: Трансвал (Южноафриканска република), Натал (Република Наталия), Оранжевата свободна държава и Капската провинция. По време на Апартейда страната е нарязана на много допълнителни парчета, които са наричани четирите ТВБЦ държави и шестте Зависими отечества. След първите напълно демократични избори през 1994 всички парчета са събрани отново и разделени на сегашните девет провинции на Южна Африка. Валвис Бей е предаден на Намибия. Грикваланд Изток е прехвърлена в провинция Натал, след като Транскей е обявена за независима, тъй като е изолирана от останалата част на провинцията. Транскей (1976) и Цискей (1981) са обявени за независими от Южна Африка, след като преди са били части от Капската провинция. (Те са присъединени отново към Южна Африка през 1994 г. като части на новата Източна капска провинция. Капската провинция е разделена на три по-малки административни единици Западен Кейп, Източен Кейп и Северен Кейп. Части от нея преминават и в Северозападната провинция.
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Cape Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope[1] (commonly referred to simply as the Cape Province) was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Colony, and had Cape Town as its capital. [edit] The Union of South Africa: From Cape Colony to Cape Province When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the original Cape Colony was renamed the Cape Province. The Cape Colony became by far the largest component of the new union, as it contained regions it had previously annexed, such as British Bechuanaland (not to be confused with the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana), Griqualand East (the area around Kokstad) and Griqualand West (area around Kimberley). This gave the Cape Province an area similar in size to the U.S. state of Texas.[2] At the time of the formation of the Union of South Africa, the entire region now called South Africa was only four provinces: Transvaal (South African Republic), Natal (Natalia Republic), Orange Free State and the Cape Province. [edit] The Cape Franchise Before union, the Cape Colony had traditionally implemented a system of non-racial franchise, whereby qualifications for suffrage were applied equally to all males, regardless of race. During the union negotiations, the Cape Prime Minister, John X. Merriman fought unsuccessfully to extend this multi-racial franchise system to the rest of South Africa. This failed, as it was strongly opposed by the other constituent states which were determined to entrench 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 incorporate many extra senators in parliament to force through this change. [edit] Partitioning under Apartheid During the apartheid era the country was chopped up into a number of additional pieces which were known as the four TBVC States and the six Non-Independent Homelands. These were created by the apartheid government in order to enforce its policy of racial segregation. Griqualand East was transferred to Natal Province after the Transkei was declared independent, since it was cut off from the rest of the province. The Transkei (1976) and Ciskei (1981) regions were declared independent of South Africa, after they were formerly part of the Cape Province. (They were re-incorporated into South Africa in 1994, both part of the new Eastern Cape province) [edit] Post Apartheid history After the first fully democratic elections in 1994, these "bantustans" were reunited with the rest of the country, which was then divided into what are now the current nine provinces of South Africa. The 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, was handed to Namibia. [edit] See also [edit] References - ^ South Africa Act, 1909 §6 (Wikisource) - ^ "List of U.S. states by area". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_U. S._states_by_area&oldid=247081460. - ^ http://www.eisa.org.za/WEP/souoverview5.htm - ^ http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/south_africa/chapter2.pdf - ^ http://www.eisa.org.za/WEP/soubg2.htm - ^ Christoph Marx: Oxwagon Sentinel: Radical Afrikaner Nationalism and the History of the Ossewabrandwag. LIT Verlag Münster, 2009. [edit] External links