Public Management and Governance

Running head: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
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1PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
1) The Trias Politica is identified as division of powers which implies that of one of the
important three branches of government is in charge for the sanction of set of laws, the
body must not be in charge with their position or with juridical decision making regarding
them (Balázs 2016).
The Trias Politica has its origin in the 1996 Constitution. However, it is under
these grounds that all officials of government along with public institutions are at certain
degree charged of some kind of a higher right. For example, the parliament comprises a
legally unchallengeable authority to create any kind of laws suitable for the nation in
alignment to powers granted by the law while the courts construe the laws and perceive
that they have been paid importance (Rogerson 2014).
2) South Africa has been recognized as a constitutional democracy since 1994. On
April, 1994, South Africa witnessed its first non-racial democratic election during the
peak of intensive multi-party democracy to agree on an interim Constitution. Under
apartheid, Parliament used to be sovereign, while, in recent times, a system of
constitutional supremacy takes into place (Parliament.Gov.Za 2019). Such an
application has implied that the South African Constitution is the ultimate authority in the
land, whereby no other law or government action can overpower its provisions. Reports
of authors have revealed that as the supreme law of the nation, the Constitution aligns
to the state namely at all levels of the government namely legislative, executive as well
as judicial.
South African government is further divided into three levels. The national,
provincial in addition to local levels of government possess governmental as well as
executive authority in their individual areas and are further classified in the Constitution
as "distinctive, interdependent as well as interrelated".
The Legislative authority has been assigned in Parliament which has been
positioned in Cape Town. The National Assembly has been elected in order to
represent the citizens and further to guarantee democratic governance (Balázs 2016). It
functions its role by electing the President and efficiently offering a public forum for the
public deliberation of problems by passing legislation and investigating executive action.