Study On Social Welfare System Of South Africa

South Africa is the largest economy in South of the Sahara, has a well-developedinfrastructure and rich mineral resources. In developing countries, Level of welfaredevelopment of South Africa can already be comparable to developed countries. In the1994years ago, South Africa has experienced a long apartheid, all the welfare systemlegislation are based on interests of the white race, but The black race has been strugglingin the “dark”,suffer serious racial discrimination and brutal oppression, even can notguarantee basic survival, not to say the welfare.And all this turning point occurred inApril1994established a new government in South Africa, it marks the arrival of a newdemocratic era in South Africa. Since then, South Africa ’s political system and associatedwith the legal system of social welfare into a period of great change. In recent years,South Africa and China more and more frequent communication in the economic, political,cultural, and contact more and more closely. January1,1998, South Africa and Chinaformally established diplomatic relations. So I chose the South African legal system ofsocial welfare as research subjects, to clarify the concept of social welfare in South Africa’s legal system and its component systems, analyze its relevant laws and regulations,dynamic grasp the history and development of the legal background of the South Africansocial welfare system, profound analysis distress and direction of reform laws in SouthAfrica are facing the development of the welfare system, but also can enhance thefriendship between South Africa and China and in favor of the international exchangethrough understanding the national conditions, the people, the legal status.The South African government ’s legislative work in the social welfare system as acore task to implement, many countries in Africa had achieved free education and freemedical care, the South African government to require all public hospitals free of chargeprovide medical for the poor, the elderly, orphans, disabled persons, by the Ministry ofHealth, unified billing costs. In1996, the second chapter of human rights protectionsection26to section30of the《Constitution of the Republic of South Africa》 provisionsthe housing, health, children, education and other basic rights related to people’s lives.On this basis, the new South African government has formulated a series of laws toprotect people’s livelihood.1978to formulated《National Welfare Act》; In1996and1997to established《Welfare Amendment Act》and《Child Care Amendment Act》;1997to formulated the《White Paper on Social Welfare》;1999to develop《the development of social welfare services and the development of welfare financing policygovernance bill》,《children’s Health amendment Act》;2000to develop the《development of welfare governance bill》, after the introduction of a number of socialwelfare-related amendments and invited comment.2002to develop 《UnemploymentInsurance Act》,2004to passed the 《Social Assistance Act》，《Social SecurityAdministration Law》，2005to develop《Child Care Act》etc. After the UnemploymentInsurance Act, Social Assistance Act, the Children’s Act are carried out to varyingdegrees the amendment, enacted a series of amendments. As a developing country, socialwelfare legal system of China is not perfect, there is a lot of problems urgent to solve,Therefore, I hope that the South African legal system of social welfare studies play avaluable role in the welfare of the Chinese legal system construction.