South Africa – a world in a single country. The beauty of South Africa reveals itself in the various contrasts. Fertile green land  alternates between desert landscapes, massive mountain ranges and long sandy beaches.   The amazing mixture of different cultures, languages, climate, vegetation and animal kingdoms offers endless opportunities to all visitors.   You will find all this wealth in the new provinces, which where renamed with the official end of the Apartheid era in 1994.   The new provinces and their capitals are as follow:   Eastern Cape with Bisho Free State with Bloemfontein Gauteng with Johannesburg Kwazulu-Natal with Pietermaritzburg Limpopo with Polokwane Mpumalanga with Nelspruit North-West with Mafikeng Western Cape with Cape Town   Western Cape     Northern Cape     Eastern Cape     Free State                   North-West    Mpumalanga    KwaZulu-Natal     Limpopo     Gauteng   The South African Capital is Pretoria in the province of Gauteng.   South African Immigration