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South Africa

South Africa is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Constitutional power is shared among the executive, judiciary, and parliamentary branches. National elections are credible. Although the government investigated, prosecuted, and punished some officials who committed human rights abuses or were accused of corruption, there were numerous reports of impunity.

The overall score indicates that there are substantial risks of potential human rights violations in this country. This may also include the tourism sector. Relevant risks for the tourism sector are, e.g.:
  • Government corruption
  • Trafficking in persons
  • Threats of violence against LGBTQI+ persons
  • Existence of worst forms of child labor

For better comparability, we have converted the original scores of the indices to a uniform scale of 1-100 (1 most negative, 100 most positive).

In the following table you find these recalculated values and the original score in brackets behind them.

For information and a link to the original index click on "?" in the table.

The Overall Score is the geometric mean of all converted values for each country. It is subcategorized in five risk categories with colour gradations that can be seen in the map.

You can find more details on the methodology here.

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Overall Score

58/100

Global Rights Index

50,0/100 (3)

Human Development Index

71,3/100 (0,713)

Kids Rights Index

72,0/100 (0,72)

Children's Rights in the Workplace Index

64,0/100 (3,6)

Global Slavery Index

46,2/100 (53,76)

Trafficking in persons report

37,5/100 (T2wl)

Global Gender Gap Index

78,2/100 (0,782)

Rule of Law Index

58,0/100 (0,58)

Fragile States Index

40,0/100 (72)

Freedom in the World Index

79,0/100 (79)

Environmental Performance Index

37,2/100 (37,2)

Corruption Perceptions Index

44,0/100 (44)

Equality Index

76,0/100 (76)