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       <tr><td>✓</td><td><a href="revealjs/wahl-thüringen/">Wochenbericht: Wahl in Thüringen</a></td></tr>
       <tr><td>✓</td><td><a href="latex/emilia-galotti/presi.pdf">Dramenanalyse: Emilia Galotti Aufzug 1, Auftritte 1 – 3</a></td></tr>
       <tr><td>✓</td><td><a href="latex/biologischer-kohlenstoffkreislauf/presi.pdf">Biologischer Kohlenstoffkreislauf</a></td></tr>
+      <tr><td>✓</td><td><a href="revealjs/south-africa-current-government/">South Africa: Current Government</a> <a href="revealjs/south-africa-current-government/index.pdf">(pdf)</a></td></tr>
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revealjs/south-africa-current-government/1-constitution.md

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+background-image="img/mandela-constitution-gray.jpg"
+
+## Constitution
+
+<notes>
+ * sets basic rules for country → important to judge democratic, free and
+   effective a government can be → most likely will be
+</notes>
+
+---
+
+### History
+
+ * 1910: Voting rights only for Whites
+ * 1961: Republic
+ * 1983: Tricameral (white, coloured, indian) parliament
+ * 1994 (Interim constitution): Rights for everyone
+
+<notes>
+ * 4 constitutions before current one
+ * 1910: Made by Whites. Voting rights only for Whites.
+ * 1960: SA became republic. No rights for Blacks.
+ * 1983: Tricameral parliament (white, coloured, indian). No rights for blacks
+   outside of the specific local area they were born in
+ * 1994: Interim constitution: Rights for everyone, negotiated by 26 parties
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/mandela-constitution.jpg"
+
+### Current Constitution (1996)
+
+ * Past inequality was considered
+ * Human rights play an important part
+ * Eleven official languages
+
+<notes>
+ * Other person: Cyril Ramaphosa (current president)
+ * Signed in 1996 by president Nelson Mandela; came into effect in 1997
+ * Being new: Chance to learn from other democracies, their mistakes and the
+   own past
+ * Human rights: important part → later
+ * 11 official languages; everyone can use the language of their choice
+ * Electoral system →
+</notes>

revealjs/south-africa-current-government/2-electoral-system.md

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+background-image="img/election.jpg"
+
+## Electoral System
+
+<notes>
+ * often electoral systems are cause for inequality
+ * system itself not that bad, but there are some problems
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/parliament.jpg"
+
+### Proportional Representation
+
+ * Half of the seats determined by provincial lists
+
+<notes>
+ * = vote for party, party gets seats according to share of votes
+ * half of seats by voting on national lists, other half on provincial lists
+ * disadvantage: provinces quite large (9) → not really local
+ * possible disadvantage: no threshold → many small parties (not important,
+   why: next step)
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/parties.jpg"
+
+### Important Parties
+
+ * African National Congress (ANC): ~ 58 %
+ * Democratic Alliance (DA): ~ 21 %
+ * Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): ~ 11 %
+
+<notes>
+ * ANC: 57.5%
+ * DA: 20.8%
+ * EFF: 10.8%
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/anc.jpg"
+
+### Domination of the ANC
+
+ * Historic Events
+ * Charismatic Leaders
+ * Constitutional Rules
+
+Possible threat: Higher GDP per capita and education could be linked to voting
+DA.
+
+<notes>
+ * Historic: ANC is seen as party of liberation as it’s the first
+   democraticratically elected party
+ * Leaders: Nelson Mandela was a member of the ANC. His popularity helps the
+   ANC.
+ * Constitution: No (really) local representatives → regional parties cannot
+   gain many seats
+</notes>

revealjs/south-africa-current-government/3-government.md

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+
+## Government
+
+---
+background-image="img/parliament-2.jpg"
+
+### Legislative
+
+Located in Cape Town
+
+ * National Assembly consists of 400 members
+ * National Council of Provinces
+
+<notes>
+ * bicameral parliament of South Africa
+ * National Assembly (lower house) 400 members
+ * National Council of Provinces (upper house) former Senate
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/executive.jpg"
+
+### Executive
+
+Located in Pretoria
+
+Is made up of the President, Deputy President and the Minister
+
+<notes>
+ * President is elected by the members of the General Assembly
+ * appoints a Cabinet of Ministers from the parliament which retain their
+   parliamentary seats
+ * responsible to the parliament
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/judiciary.jpg"
+
+### Judiciary
+
+Legal system based on Roman-Dutch law and English common law
+
+ * Magistrates’ Courts
+ * High Courts
+ * Supreme Court of Appeal
+ * Constitutional Court
+
+<notes>
+ * Legal system based on Roman-Dutch law and English common law
+ * Magistrates’ Courts: minor crime cases
+ * High Courts: major civil and criminal cases
+ * Supreme Court of Appeal: matters not pertaining to the constitution
+ * Constitutional Court: matters related to the constitution
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/corruption.jpg"
+
+### Corruption
+
+Robust anti-corruption framework, but laws are inadequately enforced
+
+<notes>
+ * private use of public resources, bribery, and improper favoritism
+ * for example: former president Zuma spending government money for his own
+   property and was involved in the Gupta Family Scandal
+</notes>

revealjs/south-africa-current-government/4-human-rights.md

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+
+## Human Rights
+
+---
+background-image="img/human-rights.jpg"
+
+<h3 style="transform: translateY(-100px);">Political rights, Welfare, Health</h3>
+
+ * Basic political freedoms but some cases of political repression
+ * Welfare needs some improvements
+ * Problems with racial disparities still exist
+ * Lack of resources and beds in hospitals, problems with Malaria and HIV/AIDS
+
+<notes>
+ * decline in political tolerance
+ * voters dependence on the state precludes their ability to vote based on
+   ideological platforms
+ * 25 percent of South Africans receive some form of government welfare grants
+ * racial disparities: struggle to obtain basic needs <>  gated communities
+</notes>
+
+---
+background-image="img/rainbow-flag.jpg"
+
+### Sexual and LGBT rights
+
+ * Issues concerning gender inequality in court cases
+ * Many cases of rape
+ * Same-sex marriage legalized 2006
+
+<notes>
+ * Jacob Zuma's Rape Trial in 2006
+ * 500.000 women raped every year
+ * first country to include intersex people in anti-discrimination law
+</notes>

revealjs/south-africa-current-government/9-sources.md

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+
+## Sources
+
+ * [Brand South Africa: A guide to South African political parties](https://www.brandsouthafrica.com/people-culture/democracy/a-guide-to-south-african-political-parties)
+ * [Brand South Africa: The Constitution of South Africa](https://www.brandsouthafrica.com/governance/constitution-sa-glance/the-constitution-of-south-africa)
+ * [Central Intelligence Agency/The World Factbook: South Africa](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sf.html)
+ * [Electoral Commission of South Africa: National and Provincial Elections Results Dashboard](https://www.elections.org.za/NPEDashboard/app/dashboard.html)
+ * [Pierre du Toit, Nicola de Jager: South Africa’s Dominant-Party System in Comparative Perspective; Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 10, No. 2: 93-113](http://tfd.org.tw/export/sites/tfd/files/publication/journal/dj1002/093-113-South-Africas-Dominant-Party-System.pdf)
+ * [South African History Online: A history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996](https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-south-african-constitution-1910-1996)
+ * [The South African: Understanding South Africa’s government and electoral system](https://elections.thesouthafrican.com/understanding-south-africas-government-and-electoral-system/)
+
+<hr/>
+
+ * Unsplash:
+   [Arnaud Jaegers](https://unsplash.com/photos/IBWJsMObnnU),
+   [Sharon McCutcheon](https://unsplash.com/photos/MIb2S5z8VJo)
+ * Wikimedia Commons:
+   [Houses of Parliament (Cape Town).jpg by PhilippN](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_of_Parliament_(Cape_Town).jpg),
+   [National Assembly of South Africa 2007.jpg by Kaihsu Tai](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Assembly_of_South_Africa_2007.jpg),
+   [R Aspeling Union Buildings.jpg by Robbie Aspeling](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R_Aspeling_Union_Buildings.jpg),
+   [Uniegebou.jpg by Davinci77](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uniegebou.jpg)
+ * [African Business Magazine](https://africanbusinessmagazine.com/uncategorised/waiting-president-waiting/)
+ * [Gallo Images/Business Day/Robert Botha](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/00Guve3YQ_SRsta8zfTjAE6sIe86lpEhLJxNge9WZY-68NU-4nNhAmRQ4QeHMzxpZdXJ19dFCQ8ksIMY9LyhsYwDFtH4rlZE=s800)
+ * [GroundUp/Zoe Postman](https://www.groundup.org.za/media/uploads/images/photographers/Zoe%20Postman/ConcourtPillay-ZoePostman-20180821.jpg)
+ * [LabourPains.org](https://laborpains.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/shutterstock_717005518.jpg)
+ * [National Assembly of South Africa 2007.jpg by Kaihsu Tai on Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Assembly_of_South_Africa_2007.jpg)
+ * [Reuters](https://cdn.xsd.cz/original/24e79dbb9ec13b25b6542b29382dcd75.jpg)
+ * [SA Gov News](https://www.goodthingsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/about-those-election-posters-where-are-all-these-jobs-going-to-be-coming-from-actually.jpg)
+ * [media-exp1.licdn.com](https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C561BAQG6fXe94q4gIw/company-background_10000/0?e=2159024400&v=beta&t=OJs2Ag5Lq7gNE4LuUwMQOwkm6lLTaF2YtfqdBXPRibA)

revealjs/south-africa-current-government/index.md

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+
+# South Africa: Current Government
+
+<notes>
+ * You know everything about SA’s (quite dark) past
+ * Is it any better nowadays?
+ * Won’t be asking that question after this presentation.
+</notes>

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