Natal Province

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Province of Natal
Provinsie Natal
Natal Provincial Arms.png
Map of the provinces of South Africa 1976-1994 with Natal highlighted.svg
Geography
Status Province of South Africa
HQ Pietermaritzburg
History
Origin Colony of Natal
Created 31 May 1910
Abolished 27 April 1994
Succeeded by KwaZulu-Natal
Politics
Governance Natal Provincial Council
Subdivisions
Type Districts

Natal (meaning Christmas in Portuguese) was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994. Its capital was Pietermaritzburg. The Natal Province included the bantustan of KwaZulu. With an English-speaking majority, Natal became the only province to vote "no" to the creation of a republic in the referendum of 1960.[1] In the latter part of the 1980s, Natal was in a state of violence that only ended with the first democratic elections in 1994.[2]

In 1994, the territory of Natal was redesignated into KwaZulu-Natal following re-incorporation of the KwaZulu bantustan.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D1FFF3B5912738DDDA80994DD405B818AF1D3
  2. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/19/world/de-klerk-lifts-emergency-rule-in-natal-province.html


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