Political Systems - South Africa

Connor Kissack

IHSS

Mr. Roddy

January 22, 2020

South Africa Political Systems

South Africa contains a parliamentary republic government with a three tier system: legislative, executive, and judicial. A parliamentary republic government is a republic that operates under a parliament. The president is voted by the people and is taken into an electoral vote. The president of South Africa is elected by the National Parliament and is allowed to serve for a fixed term of five years with at most 2 terms. Executive authority is vested in the President of South Africa who is head of state and head of government, and his Cabinet. The current president of South Africa is Cyril Ramaphosa. As of now, the country isn't doing so great since more than half of the people there are unemployed and when they are they choose to change their currency to USD and move away which is greatly affecting their economy which of course lowers the strength of their government. The Cabinet of South Africa is the most senior level of the executive branch which is made up of the President, Deputy President, and the Ministers. Each of the nine provinces in South Africa have their own executive and legislative branches, but not separate judicial branches. South Africa has no legislation that exists to give full effect to the right to inclusive education for all children with disabilities. South Africa has a bicameral parliamentary system with parliamentary institutions at national and provincial levels. There used to be an apartheid which was a system of institutionalized racial segregation which lasted from 1948 to 1994 and when Nelson Mandela was elected he abolished this. There are still negative effects from this and black people are still being discriminated in some ways such that a white household is paid 6 times more than an employed black person.

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