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THEME COMMITTEE 3

Theme Committee 3 dealt with the relationship between levels of government:

  • Nature and status of the provincial system and local government
  • National and provincial executive and legislative competencies
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Local government
  • Financial and fiscal relations

Theme Committee 3 in numbers:

Theme Committee 3 held 50 meetings between 19 September 1994 and 28 August 1995 and processed 471 submissions from political parties, government departments, organisations and individuals. Eight orientation workshops were held for Theme Committee members. A public hearing on local government was held on 14 August 1995.

Chairpersons: Ken Andrew KM (DP); Patricia de Lille (PAC); Dirk Cornelis Du Toit (ANC); Dr Tersia King (NP).

Members: Michael Abraham (alt); Jacobus Albertyn (alt); Marthinus Appelgryn (alt); Mohammed Bhabha; Adriaan Blaas; Yunus Carrim; Lerate Chuenyane (alt); Michael Coetzee; Pierre Cronje; Zingile Dingani (alt); Malcolm Dyani (alt); Colin Eglin (alt); Tshenuwani Simon Farisani (alt); Barend Geldenhuys; Marcel Golding (alt); Alwyn Goosen (alt); Pravin Gordhan; Pieter Gous (alt); Petrus Johannes Groenewald; Bertha Gxowa (alt); Mahlomola Khasu (alt); Olive Khobe; Ncumisa Kondlo (alt); Gerhardus Willem Koornhof; Zoe Kota; Nocwaka Lamani (alt); Serake Leeuw (alt); Hemanus Loots (alt); Lorraine Losabe (alt); Ntombile Mabude (alt); Amos Fish Mahlalela; Senzangakhona James Mahlangu (alt); Maine MS (alt); Malebo SM (alt); Makatse Manie; Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula; Gabriel Marais (alt); Jacko Maree; Happy Joyce Mashamba; Vincent Mathews (alt); Hlamalani Mayimele  (alt); Edward Senzo Mchunu (alt); Lewele Modisenyane; Mongwaketse SJ (alt); Sediane Montsitsi; Mohammed Valli Moosa (alt); Thommy Mukhuba (alt); Blade Nzimande (alt); Jeffrey Peires (alt); Dipuo Peters (alt); Ruth Rabinowitz; Kirsten Rajoo (alt); Ismail Richards (alt); Pieter Saaiman (alt); Mittah Seperepere; Eileen Shandu; Max Sisulu (alt); Peter Smith; Mohamed Sulliman (alt); Solomon Lechesa Tsenoli  (alt); Melanie Verwoerd; Mthunzi Vilakazi.

Technical Committee: Prof D Basson; Prof Dennis Davis; Prof Bongani Majola; Prof Francois Venter.

On Local Government: Andrew Boraine; A Cornelissen; B Moseley

Staff: Mbasa Mxenge, Managing Secretary; Sandra Haydon, Minute Secretary; Vanessa Calvert and Beverline Thomas, Administrative Secretaries.

EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE

Documents

Read the State of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994

Audio Visual

President Mandela gives his State of the Nation address in Parliament. Mandela ends his address with the words, “Let us all get down to work”.

“We must construct that people-centred society of freedom in such a manner that it guarantees the political and the human rights of all our citizens.”– President Mandela, extract from State of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994

President Nelson Mandela announces his cabinet. It includes members of the African National Congress, National Party and Inkatha Freedom Party.

“There was pride in serving in the first democratic government in South Africa, and then the additional pride of serving under the iconic leadership of Nelson Mandela … [He] represented the hopes of not just our country, but of oppressed, marginalised and the poor in the world.”– Jay Naidoo, then Minister of RDP housing
Members of South Africa's LGBTQ community take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Durban.
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The outside of Parliament.
Protesters demonstrating against the social grants controversy.
“We place our vision of a new constitutional order for South Africa on the table not as conquerors, prescribing to the conquered. We speak as fellow citizens to heal the wounds of the past with the intent of constructing a new order based on justice for all.”– President Nelson Mandela, 10 May 1994
Members of South Africa's LGBTQ community take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Durban.
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The outside of Parliament.
Protesters demonstrating against the social grants controversy.