RESEARCH REPORTTITLESOUTH AFRICA INTEGRATION OF ARMED FORCES AND THE AFTERMATH; A CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVEbyPHILLIP DHLAMINISTUDENT NO: 201649625Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degreeBACHELOR OF LAWSIn theSCHOOL OF LAWat theUNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPOSUPERVISOR: MS MPHO SEKOKOTLA2019iDECLARATIONI Phillip Dhlamini fourth year LLB degree programme student no 201649625, with identity no: 5112175563087 do hereby declare that the research hereby submitted to the Research CRRR040 School of Law University of Limpopo being my first research work for the degree at University of Limpopo or any other University; I attest that it is my own work and that all resources have been appropriately accredited. In the case where the research might contain any quoted source that is not acknowledged, it is unintended. Phillip Dhlamini DateiiDEDICATION This research is dedicated to my young colleagues, law students of the University of Limpopo who mostly come from rural villages and informal settlements of South Africa, who have shared with me their little opportunities for higher education, knowledge, skills, experience, at the University of Limpopo. Furthermore, this essay is dedicated to my commanders’ former law students of the University of Limpopo namely the late Ms Gollyluck Ledwaba peace be upon her soul and Ms Lydia Mamotloung Monyane Practising attorney, they made my military life to be successful and gave me support throughout my journey to achieve my childhood dream of acquiring higher education. It is further dedicated to my parents’, brothers and sister who never lost hope that I will survive against all medical odds and finally be like all other children and be admitted in the institution of higher learning, from God we come and unto God we shall return, peace be upon their soul.iiiACKNOWLEDGEMENT My greatest thanks are directed to my Supervisor Ms Mpho Sekokotla for her commitment in helping me, for her extraordinary help, support, encouragement, and considerations to accept, to supervise me in this research and writing it thereof. Further, my greatest thanks directed to the librarian Ms Cathrine Mokadi for her commitment in going an extra mile to find the reading material, for her patient, encouragement and her skill to listen. To my student colleagues, who encouraged me to choose research namely Ms Betsy Nchabeleng, Ms Mampotse Constance Setsiba, Ms Masehlako Venessa Maluleke, Mr Romeo Shavhane, Mr Alton Matlala and Mr Matodzi Mavhungu. Lastly to my family, for their special way of needed support, financial help, considerations and encouragements, The future is for the brave, humble prepared to learn under the most difficult situation.ivTABLE OF CASE LAWGcaba v Minister of Safety and Security & Others (2009) 12 BLLR 1145 (CC). Matross v Minister of Defence and Military Veterans and Another (36675/2016) [2018] ZAGPPHC 389 (24 May 2018)Phike v South African National Defence Force (Defence Special Tribunal DST-J1/00) [2001] ZALC 152 (28 September 2001Solidarity Trade Union v National Commissioner of South African Police Services, NO and Others (Active) case number .South African National Defence Union v Minister of Defence (CCT27/98) [1999] ZACC 7; 1999 (4) SA 469; 1999 (6) BCLR 615 (26 May 1999)South African National Defence Union v Minister of Defence and Others (CCT65/06) [2007] ZACC 10; 2007 (5) SA 400; 2007 (8) BCLR 863 (CC); [2007] 9 BLLR 785 (CC) ; (2007) 28 ILJ 1909 (CC) (30 May 2007)vTABLE OF LEGISLATIONConstitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996.Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 200 of 1993 (Interim Constitution).Union of South Africa Constitution Act, 1909.Defence Act, No.42 of 2002 Chapter XX of the General Regulations for the South African National Defence Force and Reserve published in the Government Gazette 20376 dated 20th August 1999 Individual Grievance Regulations, published in Government Gazette No 33334 dated 30 June 2010Defence Act, 44 of 1957 as amended.Defence Special Tribunal Act, No. 81 of 1998.Demobilisation Act, 99 of 1996.Government Employees Pension Law Amendment Act No. 19 of 2011Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995Military Discipline Supplementary Measures Act, No. 16 of 1999Military Ombud Act, No.4 of 2012Military Veterans Act, No. 18 of 2011Public Protector Act,23 of 1994Special Pension Act, 69 of 1996Special Tribunal Defence Act 81 of 1998Termination of Integration Intake Act, No. 44 of 2001Transitional Executive Council Act, No.151 of 1993viLIST OF ABBREVIATIONSANC African National Congress APLA Azanian People Liberation Army AZANLA Azanian National Liberation Army AZAPO Azanian People’s Organisation AU African Union BDF Bophuthatswana Defence Force CC Constitutional Court CDF Ciskei Defence Force CP Communist Party DOD Department of Defence DMV Department of Military Veterans KZSPF KwaZulu Self Protection Force LC Labour Court MK Umkhonto We Sizwe NP Nationalist Party NSF Non-Statutory Force PAC Pan Africanist Congress of Azania PLA People’s Liberation Army PRC People’s Republic of China PTV Peace Treat of Vereeniging SADF South African Defence Force SANDF South African National Defence Force. SAPS South African Police Service SCA Supreme Court of Appeal TDF Transkei Defence Force TEC Transitional Executive Council VDF Venda Defence Force UDF Union Defence Force UN United Nations USA United State of AmericaviiABSTRACT Integration and its aftermath (“Traumatic experience”) are the inevitable consequences of civil war, domestic legal framework try to mitigate the effect of traumatic war by providing a mechanism to rehabilitate affected veterans of such a war, families, widows and orphan children. A domestic legal framework further provide a mechanism to the society at large to deal with such trauma and take away the triggering effects that could lead to return to war situation. We must learn even from our past, for example, the racist Nationalist Party minority government effectively addressed the trauma of Boers society at the expense of African Majority thus making a big mistake by excluding the Africans in this important healing of the nation. The results of their mistake led to another protracted liberation struggle that cost thousands of lives, sanctions and more trauma to the people of South Africa. Negotiated settlement contributed to the development and enactment of the South Africa Constitution and domestic legal framework, that made it possible to stop the war. Section 4 (1) (b), section 4 (5) of the Transitional Executive Council Act, read with Section 224 of the