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((Short description|Fundamental law of South Africa from 1994 to 1997))
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| long_title         = Act to introduce a new Constitution for the Republic of South Africa and to provide for matters incidental thereto.
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The '''Interim Constitution''' was the [[constitution|fundamental law]] of [[South Africa]] from during the [[South African general election, 1994|first non-racial general election]] on 27 April 1994 until it was superseded by the [[Constitution of South Africa|final constitution]] on 4 February 1997. As a [[transitional constitution]] it required the newly elected Parliament to also serve as a [[constituent assembly]] to adopt a final constitution. It made provision for a major restructuring of government as a consequence of the abolition of [[apartheid]]. It also introduced an entrenched [[bill of rights]] against which legislation and government action could be tested, and created the [[Constitutional Court of South Africa|Constitutional Court]] with broad powers of [[judicial review]].

==History==

An integral part of the [[negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa]] was the creation of a new, non-discriminatory constitution for the country. One of the major disputed issues was the process by which such a constitution would be adopted. The [[African National Congress]] (ANC) insisted that it should be drawn up by a democratically elected [[constituent assembly]], while the governing [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] (NP) feared that the rights of minorities would not be protected in such a process, and proposed instead that the constitution be negotiated by consensus between the parties and then put to a [[referendum]].<ref name="barnes">((cite web |first1=Catherine |last1=Barnes |first2=Eldred |last2=de Klerk |title=South Africa’s multi-party constitutional negotiation process |year=2002 |work=Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking |publisher=Conciliation Resources |url=http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/public-participation/southafrica-multiparty-process.php |access-date=19 October 2011))</ref><ref name="goldstone">((cite journal |first=Richard |last=Goldstone |author-link=Richard Goldstone |title=The South African Bill of Rights |year=1997 |journal=Texas International Law Journal |volume=32 |pages=451–470))</ref>

Formal negotiations began in December 1991 at the [[Convention for a Democratic South Africa]] (CODESA). The parties agreed on a process, whereby a negotiated transitional constitution would provide for an elected constitutional assembly to draw up a permanent constitution.<ref name="barnes" /> The CODESA negotiations broke down, however, after the second plenary session in May 1992. One of the major points of dispute was the size of the [[supermajority]] that would be required for the assembly to adopt the constitution: the NP wanted a 75 per cent requirement,<ref name="goldstone" /> which would effectively have given it a veto.<ref name="barnes" />

In April 1993, the parties returned to negotiations, in what was known as the Multi-Party Negotiating Process (MPNP). A committee of the MPNP proposed the development of a collection of "constitutional principles" with which the final constitution would have to comply, so that basic freedoms would be ensured and minority rights protected, without overly limiting the role of the elected constitutional assembly.<ref name="goldstone" /> Adopting this idea, the parties to the MPNP drew up the Interim Constitution, which was formally enacted by the apartheid-era [[Tricameral Parliament]] and came into force on 27 April 1994.

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [https://www.gov.za/documents/constitution/constitution-republic-south-africa-act-200-1993 Text of the 1993 Constitution at South African Government Information]
* ((Wikisource-inline|Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993|single=yes))

((Constitution of South Africa))

[[Category:Historical constitutions of South Africa]]
[[Category:1993 in South African law]]
[[Category:Provisional constitutions|South Africa]]
[[Category:South Africa and the Commonwealth of Nations]]

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