An Analysis of Power-Sharing in the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983
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Authors
Anderson, Susan L.
Issue Date
1984
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
On November 2, 1983, voters went to the polls in South
Africa and passed the proposed Republic of South Africa
Constitution Act, 1983. Sixty-five percent of the
electorate approved the 1983 Act and the outcome of the
election has been heralded as an evolutionary step towards
reform by South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha and his
Nationalist party. The passage of the Act is presented
as a step forward by the Nationalist Party because the Act
represents the South African government's first steps
towards expanding ethnic participation in the political
process since the Nationalist Party's rise to power in
1948. The Republic of South Africa Constitution Act,
1983 involves a number of structural changes in the South
African government with the move from a unicameral to a
tricameral parliament seen as the major factor of change in
increasing ethnic participation in the political process.
The new parliament will include a house for Asians, a house
for persons of mixed race (also known as "coloreds" by the
South African government), as well as the preexisting
legislative house for white South Africans. Prime
Minister Botha, members of the Nationalist Party, and voters
who supported the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act,
1983 see the
tricameral parliament as a plan for power-sharing amongst
the multiple ethnicities in South Africa.
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