Paper covering rights and duties attached to property and rights to education, power-sharing and rights of minorities, reconciling freedom of speech, organisation and electoral activity with the need to combat the dissemination of racial and tribal hatred, devising an electoral system that will encourage the achievement of the principles in the Constitution, establishing forms of regional and local government consistent with the Constitution's aims, and examining mechanisms for maintaining a legal and administrative system while dismantling the structures of apartheid.
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The preliminary nature of the Constitutional document

- Origin date
- 14 January 1986
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). The preliminary nature of the Constitutional document . South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111348
South African History Online (2016) 'The preliminary nature of the Constitutional document ', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111348 (Accessed: 24 July 2026).
South African History Online, The preliminary nature of the Constitutional document [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111348, (accessed 24 July 2026).
"The preliminary nature of the Constitutional document ." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111348. Accessed 24 July 2026.
South African History Online. "The preliminary nature of the Constitutional document ." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111348.
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