Government of South Africa

South Africa government is of the parliamentary type with three branches including legislative, executive and judiciary branch. The difference between South Africa government and other Commonwealth countries government is that in South Africa national, provincial and local governments all have executive and legislative authority. Parliament of South Africa is the legislative authority, and the president is the executive authority. The parliament of South Africa government elects the president to serve the country for a fixed term.

Executive Branch: It consists of President, deputy president, and ministers. The parliament of South Africa government has to elect the president, and the ministers are elected by the president. The ministers are responsible for controlling a specified ministry or department.

Legislative Branch: It consists of parliament of South Africa government which is national assembly and the national council of provinces. There are a total of 400 members to be elected in the national assembly.

Judicial Branch: It consists of the constitutional court, the supreme court of appeal, high courts and magistrates courts.
Provincial south Africa government of each of the nine provinces has its executive and legislative branches. The legislative branch of each province consists of the provincial legislature consisting of around 30 to 80 members. Then these members appoint their premier to head the executive branch. The premier further elects 5 to 10 members from the legislature to make the executive council.

Local South Africa Government

Local South Africa Government comprises of municipalities. Metropolitan, district, and local municipalities are elected to serve different regions of the country for a term of five years.

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