South Africa: Constitutional Assembly Resources

29.11.94



Dear Sir,
I humbly beg to file the following submissions:‑Theme Committee 1
1 . Democracy - must be completely free - no fear, no intimidation.

2. Character of State - only a really Federal state has a chance of survival on a long term basis e.g.: USA, India, Germany, Australia, (UK with its Welsh, English, Scottish and Irish Parliaments) strong central Government - unitary will always crumble once the Iron Hand is removed e.g.< Former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia.

Theme Committee 3

1. . Provincial System (Provinces, including a reasonable Volkstaat for Afrikaners, must truly federal units with minimal central control, but plenty of co-ordination.

Provinces that multilingual 1 multicultural - no unscrambling must attempted or planned.

in Kwazulu - Natal the Dominant and predominant culture will be Zulu., I would humbly propose:-

To give sizeable minorities such as Indians, Afrikaners and English - small Geographical areas where-ever they form, at present, numerical majorities e.g. Indians in lnanda and NT districts certain cultural and linguistic say (autonomy) - no states or provincial status - just a cultural linguistic heartland. The Zulus will have same by way of the trust created for the former Kwazuiu areas.

The same then be applied to Eastern Transvaal and Northern Transvaal which are not Homogeneous but multicultural/multilinguaistic.

Creating one unitary state for widely differing peoples who can exist independently e.g. Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and numerous small states in the world will be a mammoth task, success will be difficult.

A federal United South Africa has a better chance of long-term survival.

Dr H B Narain