<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Elections in South Africa are held for the National Assembly, provincial legislatures and municipal councils . Elections follow a five - year cycle, with national and provincial elections held simultaneously and municipal elections held two years later . The electoral system is based on party - list proportional representation, which means that parties are represented in proportion to their electoral support . For municipal councils there is a mixed - member system in which wards elect individual councillors alongside those named from party lists . </P> <P> In elections of the National Assembly, every South African citizen who is 18 or older may vote, including (from the 2014 election) those resident outside South Africa . In elections of a provincial legislature or municipal council, only those resident within the province or municipality may vote . All elections are conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Africa, which is an independent body established by the Constitution . </P> <P> When the British took over the Cape, first in 1795 and then more permanently in 1806, they inherited a sprawling, thinly populated pastoral settlement that depended on the labour of slaves and a rural workforce of indigenous Khoikhoi whose condition was akin to serfdom . In 1806 the entire population of the colony consisted of fewer than 80,000 people: 26,768 whites, 1,200 free blacks (manumitted slaves), 29,861 slaves and 20,426 Khoikhoi . From early on the British made a determined effort to remodel this society by introducing principles of freedom and equality before the law . In 1807 the British government ended the slave trade and, finally, in 1833 outlawed the practice of slavery throughout the Empire . </P>

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