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The Northern Cape is the largest province by area and the least populous, and distances to an office can be long. Ask how the department prefers to receive applications, and use a method that gives you proof of the date.

Before you apply, read the department's own requirements on its website or ask its office, and ask whether it wants the application at the head office or at your district office.

Most of the Northern Cape is dry Karoo, Kalahari thornveld and desert, but Namaqualand in the west has winter rain and its famous spring flowers in August and September.

Summers are very hot across the province, so the early morning is the time for outdoor lessons, and winter nights are cold under very clear skies.

The dry, dark skies make the province one of the best places in the country to learn the southern constellations, and the Southern African Large Telescope stands near Sutherland in its south.

Around Kimberley, Selemo's season engine finds grassland with summer rainfall. On the shortest day the sun rises at 07:13 and sets at 17:32; on the longest it rises at 05:19 and sets at 19:18.

That is 10 hours 19 minutes of daylight in June against 13 hours 59 minutes in December, and at the spring equinox the sun rises at 06:09 and sets at 18:17: a main lesson that starts an hour or two after sunrise works in every season, and the Education Plan's section on the week and the day records when it begins.