The Private Sector and Constitutional Decentralisation in Comparative Perspective

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Title:	The Private Sector and Constitutional Decentralisation in Comparative Perspective
Author:	Cloete, Fanie
Year:	1984
Periodical:	South Africa International
Volume:	14
Issue:	3
Period:	January
Pages:	440-452
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	constitutional reform decentralization Law, Human Rights and Violence Economics and Trade Politics and Government
Abstract:	The present white government has committed itself to the establishment of a political system in which every community (on the one side the whites, coloureds and Indians, on the other side the blacks) would have an effective say in the decision-making process affecting its interests. At this moment more details are known about the proposed adaptations to the white-coloured-Indian constitutional system than about the proposed black system. The main characteristic of both subsystems, however, is the important role envisaged for the constitutional phenomenon of 'decentralisation'. In this article the phenomenon of decentralisation as a theoretical constitutional concept as well as an effective technique to realise specific constitutional objectives in society is analysed in comparative perspective and compared with present constitutional trends and initiatives in South Africa. At the end the author examines in brief the contribution of the South African commercial sector towards this programme. Notes, tab.