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Jan 16, 2012

The picture gallery of the negotiators

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The Soul of a Nation
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Jan 16, 2012

The Soul of a Nation

'Laws do not make a better society, people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common re...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda

It had taken nearly two years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to address the obstacles preventing...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock

The deadlock was not about principle, but about political power: the power to determine the final constitutional dispens...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party

Q: Until the early 1960s, the tradition of resistance to apartheid was one of nonviolence. And [then] this idea of the a...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 27 - Record of Understanding

Presented to the Portfolio Committee: Justice Annexures available on the COSATU website at www.cosatu.org.za 1. Execut...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter 2 - Historical Background

The new constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected conv...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table

The new constitution is a celebration of the creativity of the South African people, for few, if any, other countries ha...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd

I REFER YOU TO MY LETTER of 20 April 1961, to which you do not have the courtesy to reply or acknowledge receipt. In the...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk

"Communique" by SASO, July 1969 For the first time after 1959, Non-White student leaders met at Stutterheim in July 19...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC

Declaration The conference took place against the background of the Government's adoption of GEAR, its impact on social ...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective

1. Bill of Rights A. Right to Strike The right to strike should specifically include the right to defend and promote soc...

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Jan 16, 2012

Part two: Schedule of documents

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles

The years 1990 and 1991 were as important as they were eventful. The agreements recorded during this period ensured that...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court

DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA, RECALLED By E.S Reddy The "Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws" - launched join...

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