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Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… negotiated transition was based. They are contained in our constitution as the founding writ of our democracy. In that … that we in the majority party are…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
… during the life of CODESA will still leave an apartheid constitution in place. We need to reminded that this very constitution was declared null and void by…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… some of the economic and cultural rights in our interim Constitution. Our vision of bringing prosperity to all, has … young democracy. Although the…
The death of Mama Luthuli,16 December 1996
… days ago President Mandela signed into law a democratic constitution for South Africa. The ANC sends its deepest …
EventLibya becomes independent
… assisted the Libyan national assembly in drawing up a constitution for the new state. …
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's future constitution, a Convention for a Democratic South Africa …
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… The Constituent Assembly was to draw up a new constitution for the territory as a sovereign state. More …
EventBarney Pityana is elected Chairman of Human Rights Commission
… (HRC), a statutory body provided for under the Interim Constitution, on its inaugural meeting on 2 October 1995 …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Communications and the Battle of Ideas, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… in society, including the media, within the context of the Constitution of the Republic. These rights need to be weighed … is strategically placed to foster…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… aside laws that were unconstitutional; in this way, the constitution's sovereignty would be protected. The document … changes have taken place. The same…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… Reconciliation Council to oversee the drafting of a constitution for a Fifth Republic with a French style … free and fair, the Nigerien electorate approved…
Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the plenary session of the Multi-Party negotiations process World Trade Centre, Kempton Park, 17 November 1993
… we are re-uniting our country. The central theme of the Constitution for the Transition is the unity of our country and people. This Constitution recognises…
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… involved could not agree on an interim government and a constitution. The first sitting, CODESA I in March 1992 laid …
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… Donkin Street, facing on to the Donkin Reserve, one at 14 Constitution Street and two at 8 and 10 Whitlock Street. The …
EventNigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of EEC
… power was unable to address ethnic tensions or produce a constitution acceptable to all sections of the country. Its …
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… After the South African Parliament had passed the Transkei Constitution Act which replaced the existing territorial …
EventNational Party wins general election
… in South Africa had been increased from 150 to 160 by the Constitution Amendment Act of 1965. It is tempting to …
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… taken by the forum prior to endorsing the Interim Constitution. It was also agreed upon that the new structure …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… system of government and to the writing of a new Constitution for a democratic South Africa. The Conference …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… talks was to negotiate the adoption of a new democratic constitution for South Africa. The talks were set to take …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… first democratic president in 1994. The South African constitution has a stipulation that states that the president …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… the way towards a new democratic dispensation and a new constitution for the country. For the first time all races in …
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… liked it to turn out. On the positive side, we have a good constitution, there has been no effort to really amend the constitution and change the values and…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… through the Empire, from the Statute of Westminster to the Constitution of the NRC or the CAC; from the creation of a …
Liberation organisations
… were doing was to claim rights that were theirs under the constitution. In South Africa, the constitution and the law are against us, so we have to … to the…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… and amongst women. According to the South African constitution , all people have the right to have access to … to alleviate the plight of women within the…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… and Prime Minister selected by Parliament. The Swaziland constitution was a product of its previous British rulers and … it did not reflect the culture of…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… going to be entrusted with the task of drawing up a new constitution for the country. It must be a non-racial constitution, democratic in all aspects . In…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… of our new democracy. Your Majesties; When the new constitution was drafted, there concerns were that it did not … of traditional leaders;that it did not,…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… South Africa should settle for less. We therefore seek a constitution that is based on the principles of … and democracy. Believe is through a thoroughly…