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Given the ethnic, linguistic and cultural divisions of the population of South Africa, given the political criticism of Apartheid, what do you think of a constitutional arrangement of the country roughly parallel to a "National Pact".

  1. The Union of South Africa being a country of European, Bantu and Coloured peoples.
  2. There shall be a tricameral parliament, consisting of a European, Bantu and Coloured house. Its members are to be elected in separate constituencies (the European parallel to districts of the Cape colony, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal; the Bantu respecting linguistic lines moreless)
  3. The European category would include the Boers and Englishmen
  4. The Bantu category would include: Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa, Venda, Tswana, Tsonga, Sotho, Ndebele
  5. The Coloured category would include Cape Coloureds, Khoisans, Griquas, Indians and Other Asian
  6. The President would be always a European
  7. The Prime Minister would always be a Bantu
  8. The Speaker of the Parliament would be always a Coloured
  9. The Constitutional court would be occupied proportionally by Europeans, Bantus and Coloureds in a ratio of 3:4:3.
  10. Each chamber may veto any law.
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