SOUTH AFRICA: THE COUNTDOWN TO ELECTIONS

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Creator

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Place Created

Washington, DC, United States

Date

July 1993

Type of Item

Newsletter

Length/duration

9 pages

Description

The newsletter reports that the parties to the multi-party negotiations over South Africa's future agreed to hold the country's first non-racial elections on April 27, 1994. The democratic transition in South Africa officially began in December 1991 when 19 political parties launched the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), a multi-party negotiating forum. The newsletter discusses the African National Congress (ANC), the National Party, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the Conservative Party, and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Contents: KEY ISSUES • Power-Sharing • Regional Powers • The Nature of the Constitution-making Process • TIMETABLE • THE MARGINALIZED PARTIES...

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Organization

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Collection

Kathleen Sheldon papers, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections