History. The Eastern Cape as a South African Province came into existence in 1994 and incorporated areas from the former Xhosa homelands of the Transkei and Ciskei, together with what was previously part of the Cape Province.This resulted in several anomalies including the fact that the Province has four supreme courts (in Makhanda, Port Elizabeth, Bhisho and …

The Eastern Cape province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into two metropolitan municipalities (Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay) and six district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into thirty-one local municipalities. In the following map, the district and metropolitan municipalities are labelled in capital letters and shaded in ...