What are the Provinces of South Africa?

South Africa has nine provinces, each with its own elected legislature and premier.

• The provinces were created in 1994, when apartheid ended and South Africa held its first democratic elections.
• They replaced the four old provinces: Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
• They also took back the ten 'homelands' the apartheid government had created for Black South Africans.
• Several provinces were renamed early on.
• Pretoria–Witwatersrand–Vereeniging became Gauteng, Eastern Transvaal became Mpumalanga, and Northern Province became Limpopo.