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NZPA-Reuter Cape Town South Africa should have a 60 member, white, Coloured, Indian, Chinese — but not black — presidential consultative council, with a separate council for black citizens, a committee of inquiry into the South African constitution has urged. In an interim report, the committee, headed by the Interior Minister (Mr Alwyn Schelbush) also suggested that the Senate should be abolished and 20 extra seats created in the Assembly, and that South Africa should have a vice-president. Four of th® 23-strong
committee, which had been formed from the four parties with seats in Parliament, dissented. The four, members of the Parliamentary opposition Progressist Federal Party said in an annexe to the report: "Our major objection to the proposed council ’is that black South African citizens are disqualified from membership of the council . . the consequential creation of a separate council .from black South African citizens will not promote the process of peaceful constitutional {development in the Republic.” ■ i .
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