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Mpuma?[edit]

The Xhosa name for the Northern Cape can't be Mpuma-Koloni. Mpuma is short for Mpumalanga which means East in Xhosa and Zulu (hence the name of the province Mpumalanga) and Mpuma-Koloni therefore means Eastern Cape. Joziboy 12 March 2006, 22:53 (UTC)

The revious remark is quite correct,

I have a huge disagreement regarding the perpetuation of 'apartheid racial classifications' such as 'coloured'. This term was used to include the Koi people into a convenient 'classification' to bolster apartheid, possibly to undermine the origional inhabitants of the 'Northern Cape'. I do not have a real problem with the concept of 'apartheid', merely the beaurocratic manner in which it was implemented. Apartheid, according to Pik Botha (quite correctly), former Nationalist Foreign Minister of South Africa, subsists globally and can found in the preference of national and cultural groups to associate with their own kind. Regrettably the internatiional 'intelectual' community are, for conformist reasons, petrified to entertain discourser on such matters. This is characterised by the outcry by activists against Sed Blatter's conciliatory attempt to defuse the ratial behaviour of players; the outcry was vastly disproportionate to both the essence and the contents of Blatter's response!

The Northern Cape Province is clearly the domaine of the Koi people in the federal order, implemented by the ruling ANC, as much as the eastern Cape is the natural domain of the Xosa! Remarkable deviation rom Marxist philosophy, towards the acceptance of the former opposition United Party's apartheid manifesto.

In fact, rationally, the Xosa are in the process of colonising the Wastern and Northern Cape provinces by way of economically motivated migration; it is a real pity that they can not do justice the resources of their native province! Jim Wichstrom, jimwi@telkomsa.net, 24 Dec 2011, (University of Life). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cfjiwi (talk • contribs) 09:08, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why the NC Provincial Government page is only in English?[edit]

70% of the population in Northern Cape speaks Afrikaans (including 90% in Kimberly)....so why that discrimination against the Afrikaan language.

It looks like Quebec before the 1960s when French was discriminated.

Western and Northern Cape should unify in a common state with Afrikaans as the official language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.24.243.144 (talk) 15:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What does any of your comments have to do with the structure or content of this article? Roger (talk) 15:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category renaming[edit]

The related Category:Northern Cape Province and various subcategories have been nominated for renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for Discussion page.

Demographics[edit]

The information in the "Demographics" section does not match that of the infobox at the top of the article. 108.254.160.23 (talk) 16:54, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]