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GMP per capita (2011) US$19,656 [8] Website. capetown.gov.za. Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [12]
List of South African provincial capitals. The following is a list of the capitals of the provinces of South Africa . / 32.85333°S 27.43611°E / -32.85333; 27.43611 ( Bhisho) / 29.11611°S 26.21417°E / -29.11611; 26.21417 ( Bloemfontein) / 26.20611°S 28.04000°E / -26.20611; 28.04000 ( Johannesburg)
Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital. Bloemfontein has traditionally been regarded as the judicial capital. The Constitutional Court, the country's highest court, is located in Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Africans.
The arrival of Europeans. The first Europeans to reach the Cape were the Portuguese. Bartholomeu Dias arrived in 1488 after journeying south along the west coast of Africa. . The next recorded European sighting of the Cape was by Vasco da Gama in 1497 while he was searching for a route that would lead directly from Europe to A
Houses of Parliament, Cape Town. / 33.92611°S 18.41917°E / -33.92611; 18.41917. The Houses of Parliament of South Africa are situated in Cape Town. The building consists of three main sections: the original building, completed in 1884, and additions constructed in the 1920s and 1980s. The newer additions house the National Assembly ...
LGBT tourism in South Africa is a form of niche tourism marketed to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT) people who visit South Africa. Cape Town is the most popular destination for LGBT tourists in South Africa and is regarded as the gay capital of Africa, [1] hosting the Cape Town Pride festival in February/March, [2] the Mother ...
Pretoria ( / prɪˈtɔːriə, pri -/ prih-TOR-ee-ə, pree-; [5] Afrikaans: [prəˈtʊəria] ⓘ ), also known as Tshwane, is South Africa's administrative capital, [6] serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. [6] [7] Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...
Western Cape. / 34°S 20°E / -34; 20. The Western Cape ( Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]; Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous ...