| Abstract: | This article on constitutional activity and reform in South Africa during 1989 starts with a description of the constitutional background: the new Constitution of 1983; the Provincial Government Act of 1986, and its provision for the cooperation between provincial administrations and the self-governing homelands (the Joint Executive Authority for KwaZulu and Natal is given as an example); the Regional Services Councils Act of 1985; the Promotion of Local Government Affairs Act of 1983 and the Local Government Bodies' Franchise Act of 1984; and the Internal Security Act of 1982. In June 1988 the government passed the Promotion of Constitutional Development Act. This Act enables the government to establish a negotiating forum to prepare a new constitution to provide for participation by all South African citizens in the process of government. The main developments during 1989 were the tricameral elections and the publication of the South African Law Commission's working paper and draft Bill of Rights. In terms of the draft Bill of Rights, virtually all discriminatory apartheid legislation would have to be abolished. Notes, ref. |
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