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Capital city
Pretoria; note - Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center |
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Corruption
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4.5 |
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[46th of 160]
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Parliamentary seats > Female
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30% |
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[7th of 143]
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %
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32.8 %
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[14th of 174]
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Start-up procedures to register a business > number
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9
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[87th of 171]
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Status
federal democracy |
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal |
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Time required to build a warehouse > days
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174 days
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[94th of 168]
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Time required to enforce a contract > days
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600 days
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[54th of 171]
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Time required to register property > days
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23 days
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[128th of 167]
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Time required to start a business > days
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35 days
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[89th of 171]
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Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours
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350 hours
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[49th of 169]
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Time to resolve insolvency > years
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2 years
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[112nd of 151]
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Total businesses registered > number
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1,783,719
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[14th of 71]
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Trademarks, nonresidents
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8,074
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[17th of 99]
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Trademarks, residents
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10,334
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[20th of 98]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
South Africa has placed military along the border to apprehend the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing economic dysfunction and political persecution; as of January 2007, South Africa also supports large numbers of refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (33,000), Somalia (20,000), Burundi (6,500), and other states in Africa (26,000); managed dispute with Namibia over the location of the boundary in the Orange River; in 2006, Swazi king advocates resort to ICJ to claim parts of Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal from South Africa |
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UN membership date
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7 Nov. 1945 |
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United Nations mission
http://www.southafrica-newyork.net/ |
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Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood
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Embassy Row |
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