{"id":97,"date":"2022-11-29T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/italia-e-sud-africa\/cooperazione-allo-sviluppo\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:53:22","slug":"cooperazione-allo-sviluppo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/italia-e-sud-africa\/cooperazione-allo-sviluppo\/","title":{"rendered":"Development cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Institutional structure and basic data<\/strong><br \/>\nLand area<br \/>\n1.221.038 km\u00b2<br \/>\nCapital<br \/>\nPretoria (administrative) Cape Town (legislative) Bloemfontein (judicial)<br \/>\nOther main cities<br \/>\nJohannesburg, Durban<br \/>\nType of State<br \/>\nFederal Republic (National Government and 9 Provincial Governments)<br \/>\nType of Government<br \/>\nPresidential Republic: the President who is elected by Parliament is the head of the State and the Government and the Ministers are subjected to him. Parliament can impeach the Ministers via a vote of \u201cno confidence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Head of State and Government Cyril RAMAPHOSA (since 15 February 2018)<br \/>\nMinister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ms Grace Naledi Mandisa PANDOR<\/p>\n<p>Legislative system<br \/>\nBicameral, the Parliament is made up of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces<br \/>\nLegal system<br \/>\nBased on Roman-Dutch Law and Common Law; the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ was accepted with reserve.<br \/>\nVoting eligibility<br \/>\nUniversal from the age of 18<br \/>\nInternational Organization participation<br \/>\nACP, AFDB, AU, BIS, CCC, ECA, FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MONUC, NAM, NSG, OPCW, PCA, SACU, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMEE, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC<br \/>\nPopulation and Social indicators<br \/>\nPopulation<br \/>\n60,142,978\u00a0(estimates 2021)<br \/>\nEthnic groups<br \/>\nBlack 79,2%, White 8,9%, Coloured 8,9 %, Indian 2,5%<br \/>\nReligion<br \/>\nChristian 68%, Muslim 2%, Hindu 1,5%, indigenous beliefs 28,5%<\/p>\n<p>Languages<br \/>\n11 official languages: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu<br \/>\nPincipal Political Parties<br \/>\nAfrican National Congress &#8211; ANC (Jacob ZUMA); Democratic Alliance &#8211; DA (Mmusi MAIMANE); Economic Freedom Fighters &#8211; EFF (Julius Malema); Inkatha Freedom Party &#8211; IFP (Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI); National Freedom Party &#8211; NFP United Democratic Movement &#8211; UDM; Congress of the People \u2013 COPE.<br \/>\nPolitical Pressure groups<br \/>\nCongress of South African Trade Unions \u2013 COSATU; South African Communist Party \u2013 SACP (COSATU e SACP are ANC allies); South African National Civics Organization \u2013 SANCO<\/p>\n<p><strong>POLITICAL COOPERATION<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nItaly considers South Africa a strategic partner and is strongly engaged in further improving the positive developments in terms of partnerships in political, economic, cultural and scientific fields, thanks to a renewed attention towards Africa by the Italian Government.<br \/>\nItaly and the Italians have always been very close to the black people in their struggle against the apartheid. Oliver R. Tambo spent most of his long exile time in Italy. In 2013 former President Zuma bestowed one of the highest honours, the \u201cOrder of the Friends of O. R. Tambo\u201d to two Italian citizens from Reggio Emilia for their support to the anti-apartheid struggle of SA.<br \/>\nOne of our best assets is the dynamic, well-integrated and respected Italian community in the Country, with more than 35.000 Italian passport holders. And there is also a more recent presence of young and dynamic Italian entrepreneurs. We enjoy the benefits of their good reputation, which increase the appeal of the \u201cBrand Italia\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Institutional structure and basic data Land area 1.221.038 km\u00b2 Capital Pretoria (administrative) Cape Town (legislative) Bloemfontein (judicial) Other main cities Johannesburg, Durban Type of State Federal Republic (National Government and 9 Provincial Governments) Type of Government Presidential Republic: the President who is elected by Parliament is the head of the State and the Government and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}