Interim Constitution 1993, Constitution 1996 and transition electoral legislation¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Republic of South Africa
Coverage	1993-1997
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	5
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Anglin (1995)	Independent Electoral Commission Act (1993), Sections 1 and 24	September 1993	Defines the four observer categories and the legal framework for observers.
Engel (1999)	1993–1996 constitutions, Electoral Act 1993, IEC Acts, Proclamations and Government Notices of 1993–94	1993–1997	Basis for describing current electoral provisions (suffrage, candidacy, PR system, seat allocation).
Inman and Rubinfeld (2008)	Constitution of South Africa (1996) and Interim Constitution (1994)	1994-1996	Provisions on housing, health, education and the provincial assignment of services used to define the binding service constraint (q-regime) and the federal structure.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2013)	Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Statute No. 108 of 1996), incl. Interim Constitution provisions	1993-1996	Establishes the assignment of taxes to the centre, services to the provinces, revenue sharing, and provincial boundaries.
Van Wyk (2005)	Republic of South Africa Constitution Act 110 of 1983; Interim Constitution Act 200 of 1993; Mixed Marriages Act and Immorality Act repeals (1985)	1983-1994	Anchors the account of tricameral reform and the transitional constitution.
Venter et al. (2000)	Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 108 of 1996 (sections 1, 7, 9, 10, 25, 26, 36, 39, 195)	1996	Text of constitutional values provisions is the primary object of analysis for the values papers (Van Wyk, Goolam, Venter).
Venter et al. (2000)	Interim Constitution 200 of 1993, section 35(1) and Postamble	1993	Compared with the 1996 Constitution to show how treatment of 'values' and the bridge metaphor changed.