If by South Africa you are referring to the Republic of South Africa, then their transition to Democracy was a bit rocky. It was a part of the British empire before they gained their independence as a free republic. This free republic however was not a democratic one due to things like apartheid rules where a minority of rich people who were mostly white controlled the government at the expense of the local African majority. As the fight for democracy continued many things started coming up like huge unemployment and infringement of human rights. Apartheid ended and currently the country is a democracy with suffrage, but there is evidence of high corruption among the government employees and the administration. Expand those ideas into an entire essay.
If you live in the United States, the ongoing government shutdown is affecting laborers that work in big corporations and business as they are no closed until the government reopens again someday.
Laws give people punishments, so they know that if they go against it that there will be a punishment after. So a lot of people just obey the laws which the government created.
The average number of children born to a woman is known as the total fertility rate(TFR). Total fertility rate is part of population demographics.
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