Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996/2005-12-23/Chapter 6

Provinces

The Republic has the following provinces:

Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng KwaZulu-Natal Mpumalanga Northern Cape Limpopo

North West Western Cape.

The boundaries of the provinces are those that existed when the Constitution took effect.

Whenever the geographical area of a province is re-determined by an amendment to the Constitution, an Act of Parliament may provide for measures to regulate, within a reasonable time, the legal, practical and any other consequences of the re-determination. An Act of Parliament envisaged in paragraph (a) may be enacted and implemented before such amendment to the Constitution takes effect, but any provincial functions, assets, rights, obligations, duties or liabilities may only be transferred in terms of that Act after that amendment to the Constitution takes effect.