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In South Africa, a provincial legislature is the legislative branch of the government of a province. [1] The provincial legislatures are unicameral and vary in size from 30 to 80 members, depending on the registered voting population of the province. [2] Each legislature is chaired by a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker.
Each province has a unicameral provincial legislature, varying in size from 30 to 80 members depending on the population of the province. The members of the provincial legislature are elected by party-list proportional representation for a usual term of five years, although under certain circumstances the legislature may be dissolved before its term expires.
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) is the upper house of the Parliament of South Africa under the post-apartheid constitution which came into full effect in 1997. It replaced the former Senate, but is very similar to that body, and to many other upper houses of legislatures throughout the world, in that its purpose is to represent the governments of the provinces, rather than directly ...
In 1997, the current Constitution of South Africa came into force, in which the Senate was replaced by a 90-member National Council of Provinces (NCOP), made up of a 10-member delegation from each province (six delegates elected by the provincial legislature, the Premier and three other members of the provincial legislature). The NCOP is ...
The Western Cape provincial constitution specifies that its provincial legislature be given the title of "Provincial Parliament", while its members hold the title of "Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP)". [1] According to the national Constitution of South Africa, the minimum size of a provincial legislature is 30 members and the maximum size ...
Legislative [ edit ] The legislative functions of the provincial government are carried out by the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature , which elects the leader of the largest party or coalition in the legislature as the premier of the province.
English: Map of South Africa with provincial and district boundaries. The provinces are shaded as follows: Eastern Cape . Free State . Gauteng . KwaZulu-Natal . Limpopo .
The Gauteng Provincial Legislature is the legislature of the South African province of Gauteng.It is a unicameral body of 80 members elected every five years. The current legislature, the seventh, was elected on 29 May 2024 and is a hung parliament with no overall majority for any party, with the African National Congress having lost its previous majority, but remaining the largest party with ...