How does the changes made by the day of reconciliation reflect outlined in the south African Constitution
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Answer:Although South Africa’s Constitution was drafted between May 1994 and October 1996, the ideas contained in it are not new. Many of its provisions are the realisation of years of struggle and speak to the very essence of who we are as South Africans.
Our constitutional history spans nine decades between two major milestones. In a sense, both were peace treaties; one ended a conflict and one gave birth to a new constitutional order. The first milestone was the 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging, which ended the Anglo-Boer Warand laid the basis for the adoption of the country’s first constitution in 1910. That constitution was drafted by an unrepresentative convention that expressly excluded the voice of the majority. The second milestone was the 1993 Interim Constitution, which has also been described by some as a peace treaty. The Interim Constitution essentially signalled the end of a long history of conflict and provided the basis for our new Constitution, drafted by a Constitutional Assembly representative of the majority of people in the country.
The signing of South Africa’s final Constitution was a milestone in our history. The Constitution was the birth certificate of the South African nation. It is one of the most advanced in the world, establishing a constitutional democracy in which a finely-crafted Bill of Rights enjoys pride of place. It is the product of negotiations between political parties that were at war with each other. It constitutes a political agreement between mandated leaders about what the most basic law in the land should be. In a sense, the Constitution represents a discovery of nationhood because it reflects the soul of the nation. Source: SA History