National Assembly) and has special powers to protect regional
interests, including the right to limited self-determination for
ethnic minorities; seats - (90 total) ANC 61, NP 17, FF 4, IFP 5, DP 3
note:
when the National Assembly meets in joint session with the Senate to
consider the provisions of the Constitution, the combined group is
referred to as the Constitutional Assembly
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court
Political parties and leaders:
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril RAMAPHOSA; National Party (NP),
Frederik W. DE KLERK, president; Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP),
Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI, president; Freedom Front (FF), Constand VILJOEN,
president; Democratic Party (DP); Pan Africanist Congress (PAC),
Clarence MAKWETU, president; African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP)
note:
in addition to these seven parties which won seats in the National
Assembly, twelve other parties won votes in the national elections in
April 1994
Other political or pressure groups:
NA;;
Member of:
BIS, CCC, ECA, GATT, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO (suspended), ICC, IDA,
IFC, IMF, INTELSAT, IOC, ISO, ITU (suspended), LORCS, OAU, SACU, UN,
UNCTAD, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO (suspended), ZC
Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission:
Ambassador Harry Heinz SCHWARZ
chancery:
3051 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone:
(202) 232-4400
consulate(s) general:
Beverly Hills (California), Chicago, and New York
US diplomatic representation:
chief of mission:
Ambassador Princeton N. LYMAN
embassy:
877 Pretorius St., Arcadia 0083
mailing address:
P.O. Box 9536, Pretoria 0001
telephone:
[27] (12) 342-1048
FAX:
[27] (12) 342-2244 or 2299
consulate(s) general:
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
Flag:
two equal width horizontal bands of red (top) and blue separated by a
central green band which splits into a horozontal Y, the arms of which
end at the corners of the hoist side, embracing a black isoceles
triangle from which the arms are separated by narrow yellow bands; the
red and blue bands are separated from the green band and its arms by
narrow white stripes
note:
prior to 26 April 1994 the flag was actually four flags in one - three
miniature flags reproduced in the center of the white band of the
former flag of the Netherlands, which has three equal horizontal bands
of orange (top), white, and blue; the miniature flags are a vertically
hanging