1990 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of the History of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa
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63520015
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Public law
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| Research Institution | The Junior College of the University of Meiji |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAHARA Seiichi The Junior College of the University of Meiji, Professor, 教授 (30070618)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1989 – 1990
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| Keywords | South Africa / constitution / history / apartheid / discrimination / N. Mandela / ANC / human right |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this study is to understand the relations between the Constitution of South Africa and Apartheid legal system, by viewing the history of several constitutions that had been made for about 100 years in South Africa. The study of the history of the Constitution of South Africa cannot understand without to know the history of Apartheid. These constitutions never had the clauses for the guarantee of the fundamental human rights demanded by the recent constitutional rule. Therefore, those had the nature as same as the history of the Apartheid.
By the politics of Apartheid, there were produced many laws of the discrimination in South Africa, and Africans were suffered of those laws. Therefore we can say that the history of the constitution of South Africa was the history of the suffers against all africans in the background of the history of the constitution of South Africa. But since the Sowetor struggle of 1977, the international criticism for Apartheid increased, and further man
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y nations have become to argue South Africa to reconsider Apartheid by the international economic sanction.
Since 1985, the government have revised the main apartheid acts-the Immoral Act, the Mixed Marriage Prohibition Act and several pass laws. More further the government have legalized for the several political parties that have continued the action fighting for anti-Apartheid, released Mr N. Mandela who a sub-president of ANC that was one of anti-Apartheid party and tried to set a table of talking with them.
At 1st. Feb. this year, the state president, De Clerk, announced to revise the Group Area Act, the Land Act and the Population Registration Act that are three fundamental laws of Apartheid acts. By series of change of such politics, Apartheid systems seem to cease existing effect and to be expected the establishment of the new constitution with the clauses of fundamental human rights. This study is continued along with such currency of the history of the constitution in South Africa. Less
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