Today, South Africa is a parliamentary democracy, led by a president who is accountable to parliament. The country's government is, in many ways, a unique structure. In addition to having essentially three different capitals for each branch of government – ​​an arrangement considered cumbersome by many officials, especially considering that parliament is in a different part of the country than the executive and courts – it also combines elements of both presidential powers . system, in which the president is both head of state and head of government, and the parliamentary system, in which the president depends on the support of the majority within parliament. The executive branch in South Africa has gone through a number of changes since the Union of South Africa was created in 1910 by the British rulers. At that time, the country was governed similarly to how countries like Australia, New Zealand or Canada are governed today, in that the head of government was a prime minister dependent on parliament, but the British monarch, finally Elizabeth II, was head of state and king...