Question

explain the efforts made to form a new Constitution after attaining democracy in South Africa

Answer 1

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a. South Africa became independent in the year 1994, when the Republic of South Africa was born.
b. Black leaders appealed to others to frame the constitution that would be based on the principles of equality, social justice, democratic values and human rights.
c. The leadership wanted that whites should be forgiven for the atrocities they had committed.
d. The party that involved whites who led the brutal regime and system of apartheid along with African national congress that led the freedom struggle contemplated together to make one of the finest constitutions of the World.
e. They had to ensure a constitution where all ethnic cultural communities get their due recognition and equal set of rights for all.
f. They thus strived to frame the constitution that included all and it was imperative to build trust.
g. They had to ensure that constitution must not in any case flout basic principles of equality and that people of South Africa must not give up goodness.
h. That the constitution must not in any case reflect brutalities of the past.
i. The blacks wanted to ensure that democratic principle of majority rule and their socio economic rights must not be compromised.
j. Whites wanted to ensure that their basic privileges and right to property must be fully safeguarded.

Answer 2

Explanation:

After the ending of the apartheid regime, the Black government appealed to people to forgive the whites.

• They decided to create a New South Africa built on the principles of equality irrespective of racial and ethnic characteristics

• Parties that oppressed people and the party that participated in independence created a new constitution.