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The Constitution is formally entitled the "Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996." It was previously also numbered as if it were an Act of Parliament – Act No. 108 of 1996 – but, since the passage of the Citation of Constitutional Laws Act , [ 2 ] neither it nor the acts amending it are allocated act numbers.
The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill was introduced in January 1961. It came into force on 31 May 1961; 31 May was a significant day in South African history, being both the day in 1902 on which the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed, ending the Second Anglo-Boer War, and the day in 1910 on which the Union of South Africa came into being.
As confirmed by the Constitutional Court in Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association: In re Ex Parte President, this provision, read with enabling provisions elsewhere in the Constitution, is the basis of a wide-ranging system of judicial review in South Africa. Section 7(1) additionally binds the state to respect and fulfil constitutional rights.
Act to amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to further define the role of the Chief Justice as the head of the judiciary; to provide for a single High Court of South Africa; to provide that the Constitutional Court is the highest court in all matters; to further regulate the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal; to provide for ...
South Africa's government differs from those of other Commonwealth nations. The national, provincial and local levels of government all have legislative and executive authority in their own spheres, and are defined in the South African Constitution as "distinctive, interdependent and interrelated".
Act to amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to allow a proclamation calling and setting dates for an election of the National Assembly to be issued either before or after the expiry of the term of the National Assembly; and to dispense with the requirement that the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the Financial and Fiscal Commission must be full-time members ...
Section 32 of the Constitution of South Africa; Section Eleven of the Constitution of South Africa; Section Nine of the Constitution of South Africa; Section Sixteen of the Constitution of South Africa
The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa (formally the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act of 2023) made South African Sign Language an official language of South Africa. [ 1 ] The bill for the amendment was introduced in the National Assembly on 11 January 2023 by Ronald Lamola , the Minister of Justice and Constitutional ...