KwaZulu Legislative Assembly
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1989
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This study deals with the controversy ranging about legislatures and legislative assemblies and the enormous range of possible roles of the KLA in development as well as the constitutional development of KwaZulu.
This study reveals the following:-
KwaZulu Legislative Assembly has been a success for the past 16 years. The central government had created an institution for articulate opposition.
The KLA has made equally significant strides in its social policy, for example, its Department of Education and Culture.
The collective thinking of the KLA crystallised when the assembly voted for the Buthelezi Commission.
The KLA has not coasted an a gentle tide of consensus within the KLA and Inkatha. It has confronted recurrent crises both before the establishment of the KLA when certain members of the Royal Family wanted an executive king and when it was riven by dissension on issues of "policy" and "action." While there were changes of emphasis over time, the central fabric of the KLA has endured, and it has maintained its basic factual approach.
The study also highlights the multi-purpose roles of chiefs in KwaZulu. The chiefs have been integrated in the new political order through tribal and regional authorities. The chief is a legislator, administrator, and party politician. This study also highlighted that, the chief is constrained by bureaucratic rules and regulations governing his office.
The study further reveals that it is desirable to separate ^?he political and ceremonial aspects of public life. With a separate ceremonial head of state, the political leader has more time to devote to his political responsibilities. It further highlighted that the monarch is a more personalized and attractive symbol of national unity than the vague concepts of state. The monarch in KLA still serves and remains a symbol of national identity and focal point of national loyalty.
The study indicates that dynamic and innovating leadership is concentrated in the Chief Minister. This raises the question of what would happen in KLA when the chief minister leaves the scene. The answers were found to be not clear in terms of a post Buthelezi era.
The KLA has improved African moral and political consciousness but it had not been entirely successful in the mobilization of the urban African.
This study also highlights that the birth pangs accompanying its establishment are reflected directly in its performance and role. It has the capacity to raise expectations both material and political, without capacity to fulfil those expectations. The KLA must still acquire a rich tradition on which to draw, in justifying both its present and future activities.
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Submitted in fulfillment of requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of Political Science at the UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND, 1989.
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Legislative Assembly--KZN, Legislation