TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 28

1993 Regulation of Gatherings Act No 205:

S Repealed ss 46(1) & (2), 47-9, 51, 53, 57 & 62 of the 1982 Internal Security Act.

Section 46 measures were related to certain gatherings. Section 62 dealt with actions causing and/or encouraging feelings of hostility between different population groups.

Only Commenced: 15 November 1996

IN FORCE: CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

1993 Abolition of Restrictions on Free Political Activity Act No 206: S Repealed:

• section 29 of the 1927 Black Administration Act;
• the whole of the 1968 Prohibition of Foreign Financing of Political Parties Act (Prohibition of Political Interference Act);
• the whole of the 1974 Affected Organisations Act ;
• the whole of the 1976 Parliamentary Internal Security Commission Act;
• sections 29, 58-61 & 71 of the 1982 Internal Security Act;
• the whole of the 1989 Disclosure of Foreign Funding Act. Commenced: 28 January 1994, except s 7: 29 April 1994

IN FORCE: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

1993 Local Government Transition Act No 209:

P Provided for revised interim measures to promote the restructuring of local government and facilitate the establishment of Provincial Committees for local government of the provinces. Commenced: 2 February 1994

IN FORCE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

1994 National Strategic Intelligence Act No 39:

S Defined the functions of members of the National Intelligence Structures and established a National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee. It repealed the 1972 Security Intelligence and State Security Council Act. Commenced: 1 January 1995

IN FORCE: DEFENCE

1995 January: Compulsory schooling introduced on a gradual basis for black children in January starting with the enrolment in Sub A of all six-year-olds (RRS 1994/95: 267). In a draft white paper on education published in September 1994, it was proposed that children between the ages of five and fourteen be required by law to attend school. This differed from the existing provisions for other race groups: it had been compulsory for white and coloured children to attend school between the ages of six and sixteen years; for Indian children the upper limit was fifteen years of age (RRS 1989/90: 808).

1995 Internal Peace Institution Act Repeal Act No 28:

U Repealed the 1992 Internal Peace Institutions Act and provided for matters connected to it. Commenced: 21 July 1995

IN FORCE: CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

1995 Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act No 34:

S Provided for investigation towards the establishment of as complete a picture as possible of the nature, causes and extent of gross violations of human rights committed during the period from 1 March 1960 to the cut-off date contemplated in the Constitution.

Commenced: 1 December 1995

IN FORCE (as amended by the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Amendment Act No 87 of 1995): CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

1995 Identification Amendment Act No 47:

U Amended the 1986 Identification Act so as to repeal certain obsolete provisions, and ordered, with retrospective effect, that a new population register be compiled and maintained.

Commenced: 4 October 1995

IN FORCE: CENSUS AND STATISTICS

1995 Labour Relations Act No 66:

W Repealed the 1956 Industrial Conciliation Act and all its amendments.

Commenced: 11 November 1996.

1995 State of Emergency Act No 86:

S Provides for the declaration of a state of emergency as well as empowering the President to make regulations in consequence of such a declaration.

Commenced: 6 October 1995

IN FORCE: CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

1995 South African Citizenship Act No 88:

P Provides for the acquisition, loss and resumption of South African citizenship. Unlike the 1993 Restoration and Extension of South African Citizenship Act, this Act deals, inter alia, with situations where citizenship was renounced or lost on such grounds as, for example, being a child or already being a citizen of another country.

Commenced: 6 October 1995

IN FORCE: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW