Explain the necessaties of constitution in …

(i) After the emergence of the new democratic South Africa, black leaders appealed to fellow blacks to forgive the whites for the atrocities they had committed while in power.

(ii) They thought of building a new South Africa based on equality of all races and men and women on democratic values, social justice and human rights.

(iii) The party that ruled through oppression and brutal killings and the party that led the freedom struggle sat together to draw up a common constitution.

(iv) After two years of discussion and debate, they came out with one of the finest constitutions the world had ever had.

(v) This Constitution gave to its citizens the most extensive rights available in any country.

(vi) Together, they decided that in search for a solution to the problems, nobody should be excluded, no one should be treated as a demon. They agreed that everybody should become part of the solution, whatever they might have done or represented in the past.