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South Africa has separate Administrative, Legislative and Judicial capitals - in Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein (Mangaung) respectively.

This was a concession from the talks about creating the Union of South Africa from two British colonies and two independent republics in 1910.

Each republic got a capital, and the British got a capital for its larger Cape colony.

The smaller British colony, Natal, lost out and has no national capital.

More recently, when the seat of the Constitutional Court was being decided Natal tried for this prestigious award, but the site chosen was Joburg. Similarly when the administrative offices of the African Union were being located, Natal offered itself, but the offices were located in MidRand.

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