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The first constitution was enacted by the South Africa Act 1909, the longest-lasting to date. Since 1961, the constitutions have promulgated a republican form of government. Since 1997, the Constitution has been amended by eighteen amendments. The Constitution is formally entitled the "Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996."
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Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Amendment Act, 1994: 3: Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Second Amendment Act, 1994: The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, came into force on 27 April 1994 with the election of the first non-racial Parliament on that date. 4: South African Passports and Travel Documents ...
South Africa's nine provinces each produce a number of statutes a year, in areas for which they have either concurrent, or exclusive, legislative competence under section 104 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act, 1996. (See Schedule 4 of the Constitution for a list of the functions areas in respect of which a province may ...
Section Nine of the Constitution of South Africa guarantees equality before the law and freedom from discrimination to the people of South Africa. This equality right is the first right listed in the Bill of Rights .
The Interim Constitution of South Africa came into effect on 27 April 1994, the date of South Africa's first democratic elections. After an intensive negotiation process in the Constitutional Assembly and certification by the newly established Constitutional Court , the final Constitution of South Africa was passed in 1996 and came into force ...
The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa (formally the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act of 2023) made South African Sign Language an official language of South Africa. [ 1 ] The bill for the amendment was introduced in the National Assembly on 11 January 2023 by Ronald Lamola , the Minister of Justice and Constitutional ...
According to a 2014 report by Statistics South Africa, based on the 2011 census, 7.5% of the country's population is regarded as having a disability. [1] [note 1] The highest proportion of people living with disabilities, by province, was found to be in the Free State, with 11,1% of its population having a disability, followed by the Northern Cape, with 11%, the North West, with 10%, the ...