Gauteng and North West

The multi-lingual and multi-ethnic province of Gauteng (Sotho for "place of gold"), is South Africa's strongest economic region. It's South Africa's smallest province but with 10 million people its the most populated. It consists of three differently structured regions. The Pretoria area is the administrative metropolis of South Africa, a traffic hub and a center of services and industry. The Witwatersrand contains the world's richest reef of gold. The provincial capital, Johannesburg, is the main mining and financial center.

West of Gauteng is the Northwest Province, a largely semi-arid region with a population of 3.5 million. The economy of the province depends mainly on extensive livestock farming and platinum mining The entertainment complex Sun City is centered here as are national parks and nature reserves. The provincial capital is Mafikeng.