Constitution of South Africa

I can read a few lines.

"The South African Constitution guarantees the right of any citizen to emigrate through legal channels.

We must, however, draw a critical distinction between voluntary migration and refugee asylum."

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

And luckily enough for us, the South African Constitution has freedom of speech.

Oh.

So you're allowed to express yourselves in the way-

You know, we don't have an, you know, appropriation, Expropriation Act like the South Africans have.

People often forget that this, by law, yes, they haven't implemented it, but right now in the Ma- in the South African Constitution, there is an expropriation clause.

We forget that South Africa is dabbling in the Middle East.

The current administration hasn't-

The second, the heroism of the 24th Colored Infantry in volunteering as nurses during the yellow fever epidemic.

in speaking of army discipline he referred the audience to his sworn testimony before the senate committee on the brownsville shoot-up and challenged the comparison of any records of any class of good citizens to equal that of the twenty fifth colored regiment speaking of the negro soldier generally he said i can find nowhere in the histories of the revolutionary the indian the spanish-american or the war in the philippines a single instance where a negro regiment showed the white feather or refused to charge the enemy when called to do so in south africa the apo of cape town south africa a colored periodical brings word of the appointment of mr hull a colored man to the south african cabinet it will be remembered that the south african constitution requires cabinet members to be persons of european descent apparently men of mixed descent are not excluded a p o says the decision of general boda not to relinquish the premiership and of mr hull to accept a seat and so retain the post of treasurer-general keep the boda ministry practically intact we predicted that the prime minister would get over his defeat and cling to his office with its four thousand pounds a year it is now safe to say that we are already on the road toward a native parliament which according to dr brune is only one hundred years off for not only have many of the present m l a s an infusion of native blood in their veins as is evidenced by their features but the very cabinet contains colored men after all we are moving pretty fast toward the realization of a native government the prophecy of professor brune to which apo refers is thus described in the salo a bacona professor r brune lecturing recently in johannesburg on south africa a hundred years hence made some curious and interesting statements He said he had gone into the question and was thoroughly convinced that the black man, if the present policy was continued, was going to rule South Africa in a hundred years.

He did not include the colored people in his meaning, but he referred to the Kafir and Bantu race.

There were some 1,200,000 white people in South Africa, while there were 7,200,000 Kafirs.

And, and I was very much part of the negotiations that led to the change from apartheid to democracy.

I was part of the drafting of the South African Constitution as we have it today.

And this level of criticism came about already at that stage, you know, of us who were in favor of the change, uh, selling out The Afrikaner.

And so in a certain way, I've been used to that for a very long time.

Well, we should engage indeed, but we should never sign off the right of South Africa's parliament, to pass legislation as long as that legislation is within and can pass two tests.

One, the Constitution of South Africa is our framework, and secondly, the international law is the second matter that we should ever found to be on the wrong side of.

So yes, We must engage to explain to them that, no, look, guys, this is our domestic matters for us to engage.

In South Africa, there's huge debates about everything else that they are putting up as the five ask.

We're trying to reconnect with him.

The reason why I'm asking the question in that way is because section nine of the South African constitution provides that everyone is equal before the law.

and has the right to equal protection.

Advocate Tau Mutung, good evening to you.

Thank you so much, Advocate.

And this is an intuitive sort of thing.

I'm looking at the provisions of Section 9 of the South African Constitution very much on the surface.

And we're told that it provides that everyone is equal before the law.

The second, the heroism of the 24th Colored Infantry in volunteering as nurses during the yellow fever epidemic.

in speaking of army discipline he referred the audience to his sworn testimony before the senate committee on the brownsville shoot-up and challenged the comparison of any records of any class of good citizens to equal that of the twenty fifth colored regiment speaking of the negro soldier generally he said i can find nowhere in the histories of the revolutionary the indian the spanish-american or the war in the philippines a single instance where a negro regiment showed the white feather or refused to charge the enemy when called to do so in south africa the a p o of cape town south africa a colored periodical brings word of the appointment of mr hull a colored man to the south african cabinet it will be remembered that the south african constitution requires cabinet members to be persons of european descent apparently men of mixed descent are not excluded a p o says the decision of general boda not to relinquish the premiership and of mr hull to accept a seat and so retain the post of treasurer-general keep the boda ministry practically intact we predicted that the prime minister would get over his defeat and cling to his office with its four thousand pounds a year it is now safe to say that we are already on the road toward a native parliament which according to dr brune is only one hundred years off for not only have many of the present m l a s an infusion of native blood in their veins as is evidenced by their features but the very cabinet contains colored men after all we are moving pretty fast toward the realization of a native government the prophecy of professor brune to which apo refers is thus described in the salo a bacona professor r brune lecturing recently in johannesburg on south africa a hundred years hence made some curious and interesting statements He said he had gone into the question and was thoroughly convinced that the black man, if the present policy was continued, was going to rule South Africa in a hundred years.

He did not include the colored people in his meaning, but he referred to the Kafir and Bantu race.

There were some 1,200,000 white people in South Africa, while there were 7,200,000 Kafirs.

What has it achieved? And if you were to put it alongside important documents like we were talking about it, uh, the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Go check the South African Constitution against the French Revolution Constitution, even the American Declaration of Independence.

Uh, and many people we debate with, unfortunately, uh, you would try to come with them and say, "What's wrong in our Constitution when the claim is made that it is one of the greatest human achievements?" We should do that much more patiently.

But what did it really get born out of? Massive amounts of, of death, death for Black people.