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General information

Gauteng Provincial Government
Government' is about ruling: national government rules the country through policy making and administration, The Gauteng Provincial Governement rules the Gauteng province and has has 11 departments: the Office of the Premier, Agriculture and Rural Development, Community Safety, Economic Development, Education, Finance, Health and Social Development, Infrastructure Development, Local Government and Housing, Roads and Public Transport, and Sports, Arts, Culture and Education. Gauteng like all the other province’s in South Africa has a group representatives who fill certain portfolios and are concerned with everything that happens on a provincial scale.
The Premier is the executive authority of the province, an authority that is sometimes exercised together with members of the executive council MECs. The Premier has the power to appoint members of the executive council and assign their functions.
The Premier, working with the executive council, exercises executive power by:
• implementing provincial legislation in the province
• implementing national legislation
• administering national legislation in the province, if assigned by parliament
• developing and implementing provincial policy
• coordinating the functions of the provincial administration and its departments
• performing any other function assigned to the provincial executive in terms of the constitution or law