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The Interim Constitution was the fundamental law of South Africa from during the first non-racial general election on 27 April 1994 until it was superseded by the final constitution on 4 February 1997. As a transitional constitution it required the newly elected Parliament to also serve as a constituent assembly to adopt a
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
Constitution of South Africa, 1993 (also known as the "Interim Constitution") Constitution of South Africa, 1996 (also known as the "Final Constitution") The Interim Constitution abolished South Africa's system of parliamentary sovereignty and replaced it with a dispensation wherein the Constitution is the supreme law, as opposed to the will of ...
A codified constitution is a constitution that is contained in a single document, which is the single source of constitutional law in a state. An uncodified constitution is one that is not contained in a single document, but consists of several different sources, which may be written or unwritten.
The Constitution is usually cited as "Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996," while the Interim Constitution is cited as "Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 200 of 1993." It is now generally agreed that the final Constitution of 1996 ought, in recognition of its supreme status, not to be cited with its statute number ...
Tanzania — Interim Constitution of Tanzania (from 1964 to 1977) Thailand — 2006 Interim Constitution of Thailand (from 1 October 2006 to 19 August 2007) United States — Provisional Constitution (John Brown) - Constitution for a new state John Brown (abolitionist) hoped escaped slaves would create, 1859. Never in effect.
Conservative Afrikaners were very dissatisfied with the outcomes of the negotiations. At 25 June 1993 - during the second round of negotiations for the interim constitution of 1993 - around 3000 supporters of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging stormed into the World Trade Centre in Johannesburg to disrupt the negotiations.
Nevertheless, although the election boycott was widely supported, the new constitution did come into effect, and the general election was held. The Indian and Coloured chambers of the Tricameral Parliament suffered from a crisis of credibility, with election boycotts leading to notoriously low turnouts (the 1984 elections achieved only a 16.2% ...