The Codesa file: negotiating a non-racial democracy in South Africa, 1989 - March 1993: An Institute for Black Research project

Abstract

Diary of the deliberations of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa), edited and commented by Mandela biographer Fatima Meer. In addition, several political players were given the opportunity to comment upon the negotiations. The volume also contains an extensive appendix of 116 pages which includes the Organisation of African Unity's Ad Hoc Committee on Southern Africa's "Harare Declaration" (1989), President F. W. de Klerk's so-called reform speech (opening of Parliament 1990), the key documents of bilateral negotiations between the government and the African National Congress (Groote Schuur and Pretoria Minutes 1990), the National Peace Accord (1991) and documents related to the internal discussion in the African National Congress pertaining its negotiation strategy. (DÜI-Eng)