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    The Constitution of South Africa is the supreme law of the Republic of South Africa. It provides the legal foundation for the existence of the republic...
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    The Interim Constitution was the fundamental law of South Africa from during the first non-racial general election on 27 April 1994 until it was superseded...
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    the Constitution of South Africa, though few are mentioned by any name. Unofficial and marginalised languages include what are considered some of Southern...
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    president of South Africa is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of South Africa. The president directs the executive branch of the government...
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  • Thumbnail for South African Constitution of 1983
    The Constitution of 1983 (formally the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983) was South Africa's third constitution. It replaced the republican...
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    sixteenth amendments to the Constitution of South Africa changed the borders of seven of the provinces. The Union of South Africa was established in 1910...
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    The Constitution of 1961 (formally the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961) was the fundamental law of South Africa for two decades. Under...
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  • Republic of South Africa is a unitary parliamentary democratic republic. The President of South Africa serves both as head of state and as head of government...
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  • Chapter Two of the Constitution of South Africa contains the Bill of Rights, a human rights charter that protects the civil, political and socio-economic...
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    Court of South Africa is a supreme constitutional court established by the Constitution of South Africa, and is the apex court in the South African judicial...
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    The flag of South Africa was designed in March 1994 and adopted on 27 April 1994, during South Africa's 1994 general election, to replace the previous...
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  • elections will be held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces....
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    bodies drawn from South Africa's traditional leaders. It is a stated intention in the Constitution that the country be run on a system of cooperative governance...
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    Sunday Independent. Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, Schedule 6: "Transitional Arrangements", item 7. "S Africa marks democracy anniversary"...
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  • Section Nine of the Constitution of South Africa guarantees equality before the law and freedom from discrimination to the people of South Africa. This equality...
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    The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament...
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    the enactment of the constitution of 1961, by which it became a republic and left the Commonwealth of Nations. The Republic of South Africa rejoined the...
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  • related to this article: Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996: Chapter 1 Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa, titled Founding Provisions...
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    interim Constitution, and in 1997 its replacement, the final Constitution, another strand has been added to this weave. Besides South Africa itself, South African...
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    new constitution, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act (110 of 1983). The structure of the government of the Union of South Africa was...
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  • The Monarch was represented in South Africa by a Governor-General. South Africa became a republic under the Constitution of 1961 and the Monarch and Governor-General...
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    The Cabinet of South Africa is the most senior level of the executive branch of the Government of South Africa. It is made up of the president, the deputy...
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    in the Wachthuis Building in Pretoria. The Constitution of South Africa lays down that the South African Police Service has a responsibility to prevent...
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  • established, and their structure defined, by Chapter Six of the Constitution of South Africa. The provincial governments are structured according to a...
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    Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa (formally the Constitution Seventeenth Amendment Act of 2012) made a number of changes to the structure of the...
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    culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections...
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    Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994 and...
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  • conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Africa, which is an independent body established by the Constitution. When the British took over the Cape...
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    Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, was the legislature of South Africa between 1984 and 1994, established by the South African Constitution of 1983...
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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of South Africa
    This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....
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