Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 47, subsection 1 states:
Every citizen who is qualified to vote for the National Assembly is eligible to be a member of the Assembly, except…
Section 89 states:
(1) The National Assembly, by a resolution adopted with a supporting vote of at least two thirds of its members, may remove the President from office only on the grounds of-…
(2) Anyone who has been removed from the office of President in terms of subsection (1) (a) or (b) may not receive any benefits of that office, and may not serve in any public office.
Section 90 states:
(1) When the President is absent from the Republic or otherwise unable to fulfil the duties of President, or during a vacancy in the office of President, an office-bearer in the order below acts as President:
Section 98 states:
The President may assign to a Cabinet member any power or function of another member who is absent from office or is unable to exercise that power or perform that function.
Section 106 states:
Every citizen who is qualified to vote for the National Assembly is eligible to be a member of a provincial legislature, except:…
Section 130 states:
…(3) The legislature of a province, by a resolution adopted with a supporting vote of at least two thirds of its members, may remove the Premier from office only on the grounds of- …
(4) Anyone who has been removed from the office of Premier in terms of subsection (3) (a) or (b) may not receive any benefits of that office, and may not serve in any public office.
Section 131, subsection 1 states:
When the Premier is absent or otherwise unable to fulfil the duties of the office of Premier, or during a vacancy in the office of Premier, an office-bearer in the order below acts as the Premier:
(a) A member of the Executive Council designated by the Premier.
(b) A member of the Executive Council designated by the other members of the Council.
(c) The Speaker, until the legislature designates one of its other members.
Section 138 states:
The Premier of a province may assign to a member of the Executive Council any power or function of another member who is absent from office or is unable to exercise that power or perform that function.
Section 177 states:
(1) A judge may be removed from office only if-
(2) The President must remove a judge from office upon adoption of a resolution calling for that judge to be removed.
(3) The President, on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission, may suspend a judge who is the subject of a procedure in terms of subsection (1).
Section 178 states:
…(7) If the Chief Justice or the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal is temporarily unable to serve on the Commission, the Deputy Chief Justice or the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, as the case may be, acts as his or her alternate on the Commission.
(8) The President and the persons who appoint, nominate or designate the members of the Commission in terms of subsection (1) (c) , (e) , (f) and (g) , may, in the same manner appoint, nominate or designate an alternate for each of those members, to serve on the Commission whenever the member concerned is temporarily unable to do so by reason of his or her incapacity or absence from the Republic or for any other sufficient reason.
Section 194 states:
(1) The Public Protector, the Auditor-General or a member of a Commission established by this Chapter may be removed from office only on-
(2) A resolution of the National Assembly concerning the removal from office of-
(3) The President-
Section 196 states:
…(11) A commissioner may be removed from office only on-
(12) The President must remove the relevant commissioner from office upon-
(13) Commissioners referred to in subsection (7) (b) may exercise the powers and perform the functions of the Commission in their provinces as prescribed by national legislation.
Section 221, subsection 3 states:
Members serve for a term established in terms of national legislation. The President may remove a member from office on the ground of misconduct, incapacity or incompetence.
Regulation 2, subregulation 2 states:
A person who applies for registration as a voter must complete an application form similar to Appendix 1 and (b) a person in the Republic who is by reason of physical disability unable to travel to a place so identified, may, by means of an application made on a form similar to Appendix 2, apply to the municipal electoral officer to be visited by a registration officer to whom he or she may then in person submit the application form for registration as a voter and his or her identity document.
Regulation 3 states:
A registered voter or a person who has applied for registration as a voter and whose name or ordinary place of residence has changed, and who must apply to have that change recorded in the voters’ roll or application form, must do so by completing an application form similar to Appendix 1 and (c) if he or she is, because of a physical disability, unable to travel to such an office, causing the application form to be submitted to an official at the office of a municipal electoral officer by someone else who must, when doing so, submit his or her own identity document to the official.
Regulation 4 states:
A registered voter who wishes to apply for deregistration as a voter, must do so by completing a form similar to Appendix 6 and-
Section 8, subsection 2 states:
The chief electoral officer may not register that person as a voter if that person- (c) has been declared by the High Court to be of unsound mind or mentally disordered…
Section 73, subsection 6 states:
The deputy presiding officer of a voting station must act as presiding officer whenever-
Section 77, subsection 3 states:
The deputy counting officer for a voting station or venue must act as the counting officer whenever-
Section 82, subsection 9 states:
An officer may be removed from office by the chief electoral officer on account of- (a) misconduct, incompetence or incapacity…
Section 83, subsection 11 states:
An institution must immediately terminate an employee's exercise of any power or performance of any duty in terms of this Act on account of that employee's-