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    South Africa is a constitutional democracy. It has a threetiered system of government. The president is elected by the national assembly.

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    South Africa is a constitutional democracy. It has a threetiered system of government. The president is elected by the national assembly.

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    South Africas Government

    Background
    In1910SouthAfricabecameaunitednation,
    andin1912formstheAfricanNational
    Congress(ANC).In1948theNationalParty
    comestopower,andwithitcomesApartheid,
    orsegregationofblacksandwhites.In1994,
    SouthAfricaholdsitsfirstuniversalelections,
    andNelsonMandelabecomespresident,ending
    Apartheid.

    ThreeTieredSystem
    MuchlikeintheUnitedStates,SouthAfricaisa
    constitutionaldemocracy.Ithasathreetiered
    systemofgovernmentthatconsistsofalegislative
    branch,ajudicialbranch,andanexecutive
    branch.Itslegislativebranchisgovernedbya
    parliamentthatconsistsoftheNationalAssembly
    andtheNationalCouncilofProvinces.Inits
    judicialbranchresidetheConstitutionalCourt,
    theSupremeCourtofAppeal,andtheHighCourt.
    Lastly,theexecutivebranchfeaturesthePresident
    ofSouthAfrica.

    ThePresident
    ThePresidentofSouthAfricaiselectedby
    theNationalAssembly,andcanserveupto
    twofiveyearterms.Thefirstpresidenttobe
    electedunderanonracialelectionwasNelson
    Mandela,andJacobZumaisthecurrent
    PresidentofSouthAfrica.

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