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Dutch traders landed at the southern tip of modern day South Africa in 1652 and established a stopover point on the spice route between the Netherlands and the Far East, founding the city of Cape Town. After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (Afrikaners, called "Boers" (farmers) by the British) trekked north to found their own republics in lands taken from the indigenous black inhabitants. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjugation of the native inhabitants. The Afrikaners resisted British encroachments but were defeated in the Second South African War (1899-1902); however, the British and the Afrikaners, ruled together beginning in 1910 under the Union of South Africa, which became a republic in 1961 after a whites-only referendum. In 1948, the Afrikaner-dominated National Party was voted into power and instituted a policy of apartheid - the separate development of the races - which favored the white minority at the expense of the black majority. The African National Congress (ANC) led the opposition to apartheid and many top ANC leaders, such as Nelson MANDELA, spent decades in South Africa's prisons. Internal protests and insurgency, as well as boycotts by some Western nations and institutions, led to the regime's eventual willingness to negotiate a peaceful transition to majority rule. The first multi-racial elections in 1994 following the end of apartheid ushered in majority rule under an ANC-led government. South Africa has since struggled to address apartheid-era imbalances in decent housing, education, and health care. ANC infighting came to a head in 2008 when President Thabo MBEKI was recalled by Parliament, and Deputy President Kgalema MOTLANTHE, succeeded him as interim president. Jacob ZUMA became president after the ANC won general elections in 2009; he was reelected in 2014.


South Africa is a parliamentary republic.


Source: CIA World Factbook

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Income Tax Act.

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This Act makes provision for the calculation and collection of income tax in South Africa and related matters.

Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004 (No. 6 of 2004).

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This Act concerns the imposition of a municipal rate on (rights in) immovable property and public service infrastructure envisaged in section 229(1)(a) of the Constitution. The Act makes provision for exemptions, rebates and reductions on properties used for agricultural purposes, and defines criteria for this purpose. Municipalities may set differential rates for various properties including land used for agriculture and protected areas in the sense of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003.

Deeds Registries (Amendment) Act (No. 9 of 2003).

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Where immovable property, a real right in immovable property, a bond or a notarial bond: (a) is registered in the name of a person who has married since the registration took place; (b) is registered in the name of a person who on the date of the registration was married out of community of property or whose marriage was on that date governed by the law of another country, and whose marriage was subsequently dissolved by death or, divorce; (c) forms an asset in a joint estate and was registered in the name of the husband only; or (d) is registered in the name of a person who on the date of

Deeds Registries (Amendment) Act 2006 (No. 5 of 2006).

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Section 3 of the Deeds Registries Act 1937 is amended so as to provide for the continued registration of any registrable transaction concerning a right originally acquired in terms of specified repealed legislation. Section 16D prescribes, despite the specified repeal, that a right originally acquired in terms of or under the repealed Act, shall be transferred in accordance with the legislation which created that right.

Amends: Deeds Registries Act. (2000)

Agricultural Debt Management Repeal Act, 2008 (No. 15 of 2008).

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Despite the repeal of the Agricultural Debt Management Act, 2001, the provisions contained in sections 2, 7, 8(1), (2) and (3) and 9 of that Act remain in force until all agreements referred to in that Act have been terminated and the debt associated with those agreements have been recovered or otherwise extinguished. The repeal of the Agricultural Debt Management Act, 2001 does not affect any rights of the State to collect the debts referred to in that Act.