Encyclopedia > List of South African provinces by population
This is a list of South African provinces by population, based on data from the 2001census. South Africa is divided into nine provinces. ... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...
Under South Africa’s 20th-century policies of racial segregation, known as apartheid, the fl majority population was forced to live in particular areas, called bantustans.
The largest cities in South Africa include Johannesburg (3,225,812, 2001), the commercial capital and metropolis of the goldfields; Durban (3,090,122), the country’s leading port; Cape Town (2,893,247), the legislative capital; Pretoria (1,985,983), the administrative capital; Port Elizabeth (1,005,779), an industrial city and major port; and Soweto (858,649), a former township outside Johannesburg.
The fl population of Johannesburg and the rest of GautengProvince is ethnically mixed, but in other cities one group tends to be dominant: Zulu in Durban and Pietermaritzburg, Sotho in Bloemfontein, and Xhosa in Port Elizabeth, East London, and Cape Town.
The SouthAfrican Army is the army of South Africa.
The SouthAfrican military evolved within the tradition of frontier warfare fought by popular militias and small irregular commando forces, reinforced by the Afrikaners' historical distrust of large standing armies.
The SouthAfrican 2nd Infantry Division also took part in a number of actions in North Africa during 1942, but on 21 June 1942 two complete infantry brigades of the division as well as most of the supporting units were captured at the fall of Tobruk.
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