African Activist Archive

Contents: 1. The Repeal of Discriminatory Housing and Property Ownership Statutes • II. Repeal of the Population Registration Act • III. Other Announcements • IV. Conclusions • The report says that, on February 1, 1991, South African State President F.W. de Klerk opened Parliament in Cape Town and announced several major reforms that, if implemented, will remove key statutory underpinnings for apartheid. The report discusses Black Land Act of 1913, the Development Trust and Land Act of 1936, the Group Areas Act of 1966, the Black Communities Development Act, security legislation, indefinite detention without trial, the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936, the Surplus People Project, forced removals, "independent" homelands, KwaNdebele, QwaQwa, urbanization, the black township of Soweto, houses, dire poverty, de facto segregation, Minister of Constitutional Development Gerrit Viljoen, racially classified, the disenfranchised, the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), a multi-party conference, black civic organizations, group rights, preconditions for negotiations, United States sanctions legislation, the Harare Declaration, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the United Nations General Assembly, political trials, political executions, political prisoners, the Internal Security Act, the Transkei Public Security Act, Bophuthatswana, State of Emergency regulations, the U.S. State Department, the Human Rights Commission, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, and the Pretoria Minute.

African Activist Archive

UPDATE V: THE FEBRUARY 1, 1991 ADDRESS BY STATE PRESIDENT F.W. DE KLERK

SOUTH AFRICA IN TRANSITION

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