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African National Congress. Address to the Nation by ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, on the Assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani, 10 April 1993.
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Breytenbach, W.J. The Presidency and Inequality in South Africa: Implications for the Consolidation of Democracy. Paper prepared for the Institute for Future Research by the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, 2001.
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Davenport, R. and C.Saunders, South Africa – a Modern History 5th ed. London: Macmillan, 2000
De Klerk, F.W. 1998. The Last Trek. London, Macmillan.
De Klerk, F.W. 1999. Die Outobiografie – Die Laaste Trek, ‘n Nuwe Begin. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau.
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Gerwel, J. Education in South Africa: Means and Ends, in J.E. Spence (ed.). Change in South Africa. New York, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994.
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People’s Voices, The. National Speak Out, Poverty Hearings. March-June 1998.
Personal Interviews with Roelf Meyer, Cyril Ramaphosa and Mac Maharaj, July 2002
Republic of South Africa (RSA).Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 200 of 1993.
Republic of South Africa (RSA). The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996.
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Saunders, C. `The Transition in Namibia and the South African Case’in N.Etherington, ed., Peace, Politics and Violence in the New South Africa (Oxford, 1992).
Seekings, J. `Inequality, Mobility and Politics in South Africa’. Paper presented at the 19th International Political Science Congress, Durban: South Africa. June 2003.
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References
1. Address to the Nation by ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, on the Assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani, 10 April 1993. Online. Available url: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1993/sp930410.html.
2. Douglas McClure was the security adviser; he wrote this account specially for Turning Point 6.
3. Professor Chris Saunders teachers in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has written widely on topics in South African History, and is President of the South African Historical Society for 2003-2005.
4. Republic of South Africa, Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act Number 200 of 1993, Section 251.
5. Daryl Glaser, Politics and Society in South Africa. London, Sage, 2001, p.201.
6. Republic of South Africa, Interim Constitution, 1993, Section 251.
7. Max du Preez has been a journalist for thirty years, first for Die Burger and Beeld, then for Financial Mail, Sunday Times and Business Day. In 1988 he founded the anti-apartheid newspaper, Vrye Weekblad. It was closed down when he lost a defamation suit. He joined the SABC and launched programmes such as the Special Report on the Truth Commission and Special Assignment. Presently, he is a columnist for the Independent Newspapers Group and the Sunday newspaper, Rapport. His memoirs, Pale Native ”” Memories of a Renegade Reporter, were published in 2003.
8. Patti Waldmeir, Anatomy of a Miracle. New York, Penguin, 1997.
9. Graham Leach, The Afrikaners ”” Their Last Great Trek. Johannesburg, Southern, 1989, p.163.
10. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, Afrikaner/Afrikaan. Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1999, p.38.
11. Quoted in Hassen Ebrahim, The Soul of a Nation ”” Constitution-making in South Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1998, p.441.
12. F.W. de Klerk, The Last Trek. London, Macmillan, p.152
13. Hassen Ebrahim qualified as a lawyer in 1986 and entered private practice. In April 1994 he was elected as a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and later became the Executive Director of the Constitutional Assembly. After the Constitution was promulgated he was appointed to the Executive Management within the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. Currently he is the Managing Director of Information Management Systems in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.
14. Much of the research for this contribution has been drawn from the author’s book, Soul of a Nation - Constitution-making in South Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1998.
15. W.J. Breytenbach, The Presidency and Inequality in South Africa: Implications for the Consolidation of Democracy. Paper prepared for the Institute for Future Research by the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, 2001.
16. Eddy Maloka obtained an MA at the Institute of Development Studies in Geneva and a PhD at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He has lectured in history at UCT, and taken up research fellowships at Princeton University, Brown University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. After 1994, Dr Maloka worked as a political adviser to the premiers of Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces. In 1999 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Institute of South Africa. He also advises government of matters pertaining to African affairs. Dr Maloka is Vice-president: Southern Africa of the African Association of Political Science, President of the South African Association of Political Studies, and a member of the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa.
17. United Nations Development Programme, South Africa: Transformation for Human Development. New York, United Nations, 2000, p.5.
18. Jakes Gerwel, Education in South Africa: Means and Ends, in J.E. Spence (ed.), Change in South Africa. New York, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994, p.82.
19. Sampie Terreblanche, The History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002. Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 2003.
20. This and all other government reports mentioned in this chapter are listed in the Bibliography under Republic of South Africa. For the most part, they are taken from government web sites; useful web sites are listed in their own section of the Bibliography.
22. Statistics SA, Income and Expenditure of Households, published in November 2002 and reported in SAIRR Fast Facts, No. 3, March 2003, p.9.
23. Karin Lombard, Report of the First Round of the SA Reconciliation Barometer. Rondebosch, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, September 2003, p.62.