Constitutional Changes in South Africa

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Title:	Constitutional Changes in South Africa
Author:	Welsh, David
Year:	1984
Periodical:	African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:	83
Issue:	331
Period:	April
Pages:	147-162
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	constitutional reform Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/721557
Abstract:	On 2 November 1983 the white South African electorate voted in a referendum to gauge their support for a Constitutional Act that had been passed earlier in the year by Parliament. Changes of the kind embodied in the Constitutional Act have been on the ruling National Party's agenda for some eight years. Common to the earlier proposals, and embodied in the Bill that was enacted by Parliament in 1983, was the exclusion of blacks from participation in the envisaged political structures, while the political incorporation of the Coloured and Indian populations has been managed without jeopardising white control. Notes.