The
Province of Natal , commonly referred to as the
Natal Province was a
province of
South Africa from 1910 until 1994. Its capital was
Pietermaritzburg. The Natal Province included the
bantustan of
KwaZulu. The majority of the white population were
English-speaking, causing Natal to become the only province to vote "no" to the creation of a
republic in the
referendum of 1960. In the latter part of the 1980s, Natal was in a state of violence that only ended with the first multiracial elections in 1994.