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Executive, legislative and judicial functions sit in Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein. The figure is taken from CIA World Factbook, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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South Africa spreads its government over three cities

Executive, legislative and judicial functions sit in Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein Pretoria holds the presidency and the civil service, Cape Town holds parliament, and Bloemfontein is the traditional judicial capital. The Constitutional Court, however, sits in Johannesburg. The arrangement came out of the union of 1910, which had to balance the former colonies. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Executive, legislative and judicial functions sit in Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein. The figure is taken from CIA World Factbook, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.