Northern Cape

noun

1. the largest but least populated province in South Africa, in the NW part of the country; created in 1994 from part of Cape Province: agriculture, mining (esp diamonds). Capital: Kimberley. Pop: 899 349 (2004 est). Area: 139 703 sq km (361 830 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Visitors to the family home near the banks of the Orange River in the Northern Cape province also chipped in, with pride, a few words of N|uu in homage to the matriarch’s efforts to keep alive a language that researchers say is 25,000 years old and endangered.

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Dr Lipholo is also laying claim to parts of the Northern Cape, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

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Operation Dudula does not have a manifesto or any policy other than its stance on foreigners, though Ms Dabula maintains it has a presence in every province except Northern Cape.

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When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language".

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The Northern Cape, an arid area favorable to solar plants, also needs to expand its transmission infrastructure to carry power to the big population centers.

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