The provincial legislature elects, from amongst its members, a Premier, who is the head of the executive. The legislatures are elected every five years by a system of party-list proportional representation by convention, they are all elected on the same day, at the same time as the National Assembly election. The size of the legislature is proportional to population, ranging from 30 members in the Northern Cape to 80 in KwaZulu-Natal.
Six of these are permanent members of the council, and four are special delegates.Įach province is governed by a unicameral legislature. The second exists to ensure that the interests of each province are protected in the laws passed by the National Assembly.Įach one of South Africa's nine provinces sends 10 representatives to the National Council of Provinces. South Africa has two houses of parliament: the National Assembly, and the National Council of Provinces. Main article: National Council of Provinces The definitions of the new provinces in terms of magisterial districts were found in Schedule 1 of the Interim Constitution. The boundaries of these provinces were established in 1993 by a Commission on the Demarcation/Delimitation of Regions created by CODESA, and were broadly based on planning regions demarcated by the Development Bank of Southern Africa in the 1980s, and amalgamated from existing magisterial districts, with some concessions to political parties that wished to consolidate their power bases, by transferring districts between the proposed provinces. On 27 April 1994, the date of the first non-racial elections and of the adoption of the Interim Constitution, all of these provinces and homelands were dissolved, and nine new provinces were established. In 1976, the homeland of Transkei was the first to accept independence from South Africa, and although this independence was never acknowledged by any other country, three other homelands – Bophuthatswana (1977), Venda (1979) and Ciskei (1981) – followed suit. Four of these homelands were established as quasi-independent nation states of the black population during the apartheid era. From the late 1950s, these areas were gradually consolidated into " homelands", also called " bantustans". Segregation of the black population started as early as 1913, with ownership of land by the black majority being restricted to certain areas totalling about 13% of the country. Provinces and homelands, as they were at the end of apartheid
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