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Elections in South Africa
Political Profile
Political System:
Democracy
President: Thabo Mbeki (ANC) [since 16 June 1999; elected
1999, re-elected 2004] The President is elected by the National Assembly for a 5-year term.
Parliament [bicameral]
--National Council of Provinces (90 Seats) 10 members elected by each of the nine provincial legislatures for five-year terms.
--National Assembly (400 Seats) Members are elected by popular vote under a system of proportional representation to serve five-year terms.
Electoral System: Party-List Proportional Representation.
Political Situation since Independence
1910-1990 Democracy [Whites], Restricted Democratic Practice [Minorities]
1990-1994 Transition to Multiracial Rule
1994- Democracy
2007 Freedom House Rating:
Political Rights - 2, Civil Liberties - 2, Status: Free
Next Scheduled National Council of the Provinces Election:
2009
Next Scheduled National Assembly Election: 2009
Political Parties
-Pre-Apartheid Era: AP - Afrikaner Party, HRP - Home
Rule Party, NP - National Party, RP - Roos Party, SALP - South African Labour Party, SAP - South African Party, SP - Socialist
Party, UP - Unionist Party, UP - United Party.
-Apartheid Era: White (European) Parties:
CP - Conservative Party (far-right), DP - Democratic Party, HNP - Herstigte [Reconstituted] National Party (far-right), NRP - New Republic Party (centrist), NP - National
Party (right-wing), NU - National Union, PFP - Progressive Federal Party (center-left), PP - Progressive Party, SAP South
African Party, UP - United Party; Coloured Parties:
CP - Conservative Party, DRP - Democratic Reform Party, FP - Federal Party, FP - Freedom Party, LP - Labour Party, NPP - National
People’s Party, PCP - People’s Congress Party, RP - Republican Party, UDP - United Democratic Party; Indian
Parties: DP - Democratic Party, MPP - Merit People’s Party,
NFP - National Federal Party, NPP - National People’s Party, PIP - Progressive Independent Party, PPSA - People’s
Party of South Africa, SOL - Solidarity, UP - United Party.
-Post-Apartheid Era: ACDP - African Christian Democratic Party (christian, conservative), ADM - African Democratic
Movement, AEB - Afrikaner EenheidsBeweging [Afrikaner Unity Movement] (far-right), AITUP - Abolition of Income
Tax and Usury Party, AMCP - African Moderates Congress Party, AMP - Africa Muslim Party, ANC - African National Congress (far-left, socialist), AZAPO - Azanian
People’s Organisation (far-left, socialist), CDP - Christian Democratic Party, DA - Democratic Alliance (liberal), DP - Democratic Party (center-left), DPSA - Dikwankwetla
Party of South Africa, EMSA - Employment Movement for South Africa, FA - Federal Alliance (centrist), FP - Federal Party,
GPGP - Government by the People Green Party, ID - Independent Democrats (center-left), IFP - Inkatha Freedom Party (right-wing, conservative), KISS - Keep it Straight and Simple
Party, LUSO - Luso-South African Party, MF - Minority Front , NA
- National Action, NLP - New Labour Party, NNP - New National Party (right-wing, conservative), NP - National Party (right-wing, conservative), PAC - Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
(far-left), PJC - Peace and Justice Congress, SOCCER - Sport Organisation for Collective Contributions and Equal Rights, SOPA
- Socialist Party of Azania, TOP - The Organisation Party, UCDP - United Christian Democratic Party (right-wing, christian democratic), UDM - United Democratic Movement (centrist), UF - United Front, VF/FF - Vryheidsfront/Freedom Front (right-wing), VF+/FF+ - Vryheidsfront Plus/Freedom Front Plus (right-wing), WLP - Workers' List Party, WRPP - Women's Rights Peace Party, XPP - Ximoko Progressive Party.
Coalitions: National Party-South African
Labour Party (NP-SALP) [Contested 1924 & 1933 House of Assembly Election]; National Party-Afrikaner Party (NP-AP)
[Contested 1948 House of Assembly Election]; South African Party-Unionist Party (SAP-UP) [Contested 1924 House of Assembly
Election]
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