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28 October – Constand Viljoen, South African military commander, politician & co-founded the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front) 15 December – Donald Woods, journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001).
Banning was a repressive and extrajudicial measure [1] used by the South African apartheid regime (1948–1994) against its political opponents. [2] The legislative authority for banning orders was firstly the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950 , [ 3 ] which defined virtually all opposition to the ruling National Party as communism .
South Africa Act Amendment Act, 1933: 18: Agricultural Pests Amendment Act, 1933: 19: Immigration (Amendment) Act, 1933: 20: Franschhoek Water (Private) Act, 1933: 21: Rand Water Board Statutes 1903–1932 Amendment (Private) Act, 1933: 22: Union and Southern Rhodesia Death Duties Act, 1933: 23: Co-operative Societies (Further Amendment) Act ...
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.
South Africa is generally considered to have had five constitutional documents since the Union was established in 1910, including the current one. The constitutions in chronological order are: South Africa Act 1909; Constitution of South Africa, 1961 (also known as the "Republican Constitution")
The capital flight triggered a dramatic decline in the international exchange rate of the South African currency, the rand. The currency decline made imports more expensive which in turn caused inflation in South Africa to rise at a very steep 12–15% per year. [31] The South African government did attempt to restrict the damaging outflow of ...
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993 established universal non-racial adult suffrage. Separate development and bantustans The Native Administration Act, 1927 gave the executive government wide-ranging authority to govern the "native reserves", and the people living in them, by proclamation.
The first internal passports in South Africa were introduced on 27 June 1797 by the Earl Macartney in an attempt to prevent Africans from entering the Cape Colony. [2] The Cape Colony was merged with the two Afrikaners republics in Southern Africa to form the Union of South Africa in 1910. By this time, versions of pass laws existed elsewhere.