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REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA : First Report of the Constitutional Committee of the President's Council

Government Printer, Pretoria, 1982

A fine unread copy in the original deep yellow thin card printed wrappers as issued. P.C.3/1982. 3000 copies printed, but seemingly scarcer than the print order would suggest. Probably many were pulped. The precursor of the final phase of the Apartheid regime, the Tricameral Parliament, which ran from 1984 to 1994. The Tricameral Parliament was the name given to the South African parliament and its structure from 1984 to 1994. While still entrenching the political power of the White section of the South African population (or, more specifically, that of the National Party) (NP), it did give a limited political voice to the country's Coloured and Indian population groups. The majority Black population group was still excluded, however. The Tricameral Parliament can trace its origin back to 1981, when the Senate was replaced with the President's Council (Afrikaans: Presidentsraad), which was an advisory body consisting of sixty nominated members from the White, Coloured, Indian and Chinese population groups. Following a request by P.W. Botha, the President's Council presented a set of proposals in 1982 for constitutional and political reform. This proposal called for the implementation of "power sharing" between the White, Coloured and Indian communities. The right wing of the NP was very unhappy about this proposal and a group of its MPs, led by Dr. Andries Treurnicht, a cabinet minister and the leader of the NP in the Transvaal province, broke away to form the Conservative Party (CP) in order to fight for a return to apartheid in its original form.

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