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Cape Province, South Africa (1910-1994)

Kaap de Goeie Hoop

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Introduction

Cape Province / Kaapprovinsie (named after the Good Hope Cape) occupied more than half of the South African territory, in the west, bordering Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia). Included Ciskei and most of Transkei, by the southeastern shore, and roughly half of Bophuthatswana, in the northwest. Following 1994, it was re-organized in the new provinces of Western Cape, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape and the western half of North-West.
Antonio Martins, 30 May 1999

The Cape Province was split four ways: Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape are entirely land that belonged to the Cape Province before 1976, but North West Province was half-and-half: part old Cape Province, part Transvaal. Another piece of the old Cape Province, Griqualand East, became part of Natal in 1976 (having been cut off by Transkei), and is in dispute between KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.
Mike Oettle, 11 Dec 2001

When the Cape Colony first became a province, the official languages were English and Dutch, and the province's name in Dutch was Kaap Provincie (in full Provincie Kaap de Goede Hoop). Under the Official Languages of the Union Act of 1925, the definition of "Dutch language" in the Constitution was extended to include Afrikaans. The province's name now became Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop (or Kaapprovinsie). Under the 1961 (republican) Constitution, Dutch was omitted from the section dealing with language, which then mentioned only English and Afrikaans. This was unaltered until the adoption of the 1994 interim Constitution, under which the country then had 11 official languages. This was confirmed in the 1996 Constitution.
Mike Oettle, 19 Dec 2001

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Like with the other provinces forming South Africa between 1910 and 1994, the Cape Province did not have an official flag.
Bruce Berry, 30 May 1998

It has been stated that there was no Red Ensign for the Cape Colony. I have no way of checking this, but it’s quite possible that there was no authorised Cape Colony Red Ensign. On the other hand, one certainly did exist, and was known as the Railway Ensign because it was to be seen chiefly at stations of the Cape Government Railways (CGR). The roundel in the fly contained (as in the colony’s Blue Ensign) th