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The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs is a portfolio committee of the National Assembly in the Parliament of South Africa. The remit of the committee includes oversight of the Department of Home Affairs, the Government Printing Works, and the Electoral Commission of South Africa. [1]
Enemy of the People: How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back (2017) is a book by Adriaan Basson and Pieter du Toit, political journalists from South Africa about the creation by President Jacob Zuma of a patronage network embedded in the South African government; the process of state capture that took place under Zuma's leadership; those that supported Zuma and those ...
The Union of South Africa adopted a system of governance based on the political system of the United Kingdom. The British monarch was the ceremonial head of state of South Africa and was represented by a Governor-General. Real political power lay in the hands of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The basic ideas of this system such as a three ...
The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa.
Malaika Wa Azania was born in Zone 8 Meadowlands, Soweto, on 19 October 1991. She was raised by a single mother, Dipuo Mahlatsi, a student activist who was part of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL).
For the next forty-six years, South Africa would be governed by the National Party. On 31 May 1961, South Africa became a republic and Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state with a state president with largely ceremonial powers. [37] The Prime Minister was still head of government and appointed/dismissed members of the cabinet.
African National Congress: 4 Max Sisulu (born 1945) 6 May 2009 21 May 2014 5 years, 15 days African National Congress (2) Baleka Mbete (born 1949) 21 May 2014 22 May 2019 5 years, 1 day African National Congress: 5 Thandi Modise (born 1959) 22 May 2019 5 August 2021 2 years, 75 days African National Congress: 6 Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (born 1956)
The South African Protection of State Information Bill, formerly named the Protection of Information Bill and commonly referred to as the Secrecy Bill, [1] is a highly controversial piece of proposed legislation which aims to regulate the, protection and dissemination of state information, weighing state interests up against transparency and freedom of expression. [2]