Provincial Legislatures of South Africa

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There are nine provinces in South Africa, which were established on 27 April 1994 in terms of s124 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act, No. 108 of 1993:

Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng (initially called the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging or PWV Province)
KwaZulu-Natal
Limpopo (initially called the Northern Transvaal Province)
Mpumalanga (initially called the Eastern Transvaal Province
North West
Northern Cape
Western Cape

[edit] Own Competencies and Shared Competencies

Each province has its own Provincial Legislature, with their own competencies to make legislation in various areas, and with prescribed responsibilities to implement and administer that law.

Several areas of legislative competency are shared between the national legislature and provincial legislatures. Where legislative competencies are shared, national legislation may over-ride province’s legislation. For example, “environment” is such an area of shared legislative competency.