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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Motala, Ziyad, 1962- Constitutional options for a democratic South Africa. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, c1994 (OCoLC)605999076 Online version: Motala, Ziyad, 1962- Constitutional options for a democratic South Africa. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, c1994 (OCoLC)624602551 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ziyad Motala |
| ISBN: | 0882581872 : 9780882581873 0882581805 : 9780882581804 |
| OCLC Number: | 29953418 |
| Description: | vii, 276 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Philosophical Origins of Liberal Constitutions -- 3. Democracy: Meaning and Interpretation -- 4. State Organization and Federalism in Africa -- 5. Western Constitutional Models and Government in Africa -- 6. South African Constitutions and Government -- 7. Federalism and Liberal Constitutions in African States -- 8. The Soviet Constitutional Model and African Marxist States -- 9. African Socialism and One-Party States -- 10. South African Political Organizations -- 11. The Constitution and Judicial Review -- 12. Conclusion: Constitutional Options for South Africa. |
| Responsibility: | Ziyad Motala. |
Abstract:
Constitutional Options for a Democratic South Africa describes the unjust South African political and judicial apartheid system that exploited black South Africans. Ziyad Motala emphasizes the importance of a constitution and state system that would not only ameliorate the enormous inequalities generated by colonialism and apartheid but also ensure equal democratic rights and protection to all citizens in the post-apartheid South Africa. He carefully examines and compares the political outcomes of post-independent African states adopting (1) the Western liberal federal state, (2) the Soviet-inspired Marxist unitary state, or (3) the locally inspired one-party African socialist state. Motala weighs the relative merits of these state structures for dealing with the complex of democracy, socioeconomic development, and national unity in multiethnic states.
He contends that the constitutions and state practices employed thus far by African states have not facilitated political and socioeconomic development, and recommends different constitutional and state options for South Africa.
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- Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
- Comparative government.
- Constitutional law -- South Africa.
- Federal government -- South Africa.
- Democratic centralism -- South Africa.
- Centralisme démocratique -- Afrique du Sud.
- Droit constitutionnel -- Afrique du Sud.
- Gouvernement fédéral -- Afrique du Sud.
- Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960-....
- Grondwetten.
- Democratie.
- Verfassungsrecht.
- Politisches System.
- Föderalismus.
- Südafrika.
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