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2 No. 49041
Government Gazette, 27 July 2023

Act No. 03 of 2023
Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act, 2023

General explanatory note:

[                      ]  Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments.
                          Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.






(English text signed by the President.)
(Assented to 19 July 2023.)



Act


To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to recognise South African Sign Language as one of the official languages of the Republic; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.


Be it enacted by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—


Amendment of section 6 of Constitution

1. Section 6 of the Constitution is hereby amended—

(a)

by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

(1) “The official languages of the Republic are Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, South African Sign Language, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu.”; and

(b)

by the substitution for paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of the following paragraph:

(a)

promote, and create conditions for, the development and use of—

(i)

all official languages; and

(ii)

the Khoi, Nama and San languages; and

[(iii)

sign language; and]”.

Short title and commencement

2. This Act is called the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act, 2023, and comes into operation on a date fixed by the President by proclamation in the Gazette.

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