South African general election, 2009
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Sometime in 2009, South Africa will hold national elections to elect a new government.
These will be the fourth general elections held since the end of the apartheid era. The South African National Assembly consists of 400 members, elected by proportional representation. Two hundred members are elected from national party lists, the other 200 are elected from party lists in each of the nine provinces. The President of South Africa is chosen by the National Assembly after each election.
Also, the provincial governments will hold elections concurrently, with the premiers of each province being designated by and from the winning majority in each provincial legislature.
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[edit] Current developments
- Current President Thabo Mbeki will not stand for re-election per the presidential term limits of the 1996 Constitution. At present, the candidate for president of the African National Congress - the current ruling party in Parliament - is scheduled to be the current President of the ANC, Jacob Zuma.[1] Zuma defeated Mbeki for the party presidency at the Polokwane Conference on 18 December 2007. Zuma's victory in that internal party election (by a delegate vote of 2329 to 1505)[2] was partly due to the wide degree of support for him from the ANC Youth League and COSATU since charges of rape against him were dropped in 2006.
- The 2009 election will also see a different political atmosphere, as the New National Party, which inherited much of the National Party's legacy and competed in the 2004 general election, merged into the ANC in 2005 via the floor crossing legislation. The current opposition party in Parliament, the Democratic Alliance, currently leads a coalition government in the City of Cape Town, where the national leader of the party, Helen Zille, is the mayor.
[edit] Possible issues
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- HIV/AIDS is slated to play a tremendous role in the 2009 election, as protests against the reluctance of the second Mbeki government to play an active role in the treatment of AIDS/HIV victims, and particularly the controversial actions of Mbeki's health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, were numerous.
- Poverty, service delivery, and housing inadequacies in poor income regions and urban areas.
- Resolution of the current power crisis, including future electricity tarif increases.
- The budget balance. Currently in surplus, Jacob Zuma has expressed his wish that the money be spent on the poor and the budget run at a small deficit.
- BEE, affermative action policies, "reverse racism" and ethnic equality creating push emigration on the country's white and indian minorities, and ensuring that more and more black citizens get previously white owned jobs and enter a "white" salary scale, enabling them to afford property and mobile telephones and running water.
- Land reform
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- ^ http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?doc=./ancdocs/pr/2008/pr0108.html (Statement of the ANC National Executive Committee, 8 January 2008.) The ANC National Executive Committee confirmed that "the ANC President will lead the ANC election campaign as the organisation's candidate for president of South Africa in the 2009 election."
- ^ http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/2007/pr1219.html (Press Statement: Results for the Election of ANC Officials, 19 December 2007)
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