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Title: | Finalizing the South African Constitution: the politics of the Constitutional Assembly |
Author: | Strand, Per |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 47-63 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | constitutions 1996 |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589340120058094 |
Abstract: | In the literature on the constitutional negotiations in South Africa's transition to democracy there is a tendency to place relatively little analytical focus on the negotiations in the Constitutional Assembly (CA) that took place between August 1994 and October 1996. The dominating image is that the negotiations leading up to the 1994 election generated the agreement that the CA process merely codified in more constitutional formulations and agreements; that the politics of constitutionmaking happened before the 1994 elections. This article analyses the discussions in the CA. It argues that although the pre-election negotiations were more dramatic, the CA process was thoroughly political in that CA delegates negotiated critical decisions on democracy in a process that was shaped both by pre-election agreements and the political logic of the CA interactions themselves. Notes, ref., sum. |