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Cape Town
Cape Town, city and seaport, legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province. The city lies at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula. Because it was the site of the first European settlement in South Africa, Cape Town is known as the country's 'mother city.'
Johannesburg
Today the city is a part of Gauteng (a Sotho word meaning "Place of Gold"), one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The geography of Johannesburg reflects nearly a century of racially driven social engineering that reached a climax under apartheid (literally "apartness"), the system of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to ...