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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Engel, Ulf
• Marauhn, Thilo
• Hernekamp, Karl-Andreas
• Bast, Jürgen
• Bryde, Brun-Otto
• Dann, Philipp
• Kunig, Philip
• Tschentscher, Axel

Titel

Parlamentswahlen in Südafrika

Ist Teil von

• Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 1994-12, Vol.27 (4), p.447-490

Ort / Verlag

Baden-Baden: Institut für Internationale Angelegenheiten der Universität Hamburg

Erscheinungsjahr

1994

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Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite of administrative and logistical problems, attempts of both sabotage and fraud, and the prevailing climate of political intolerance and violence the South African people were able to cast their votes in parliamentary elections held on April 26-29, 1994. The decisive phase of transition from apartheid rule to multiparty democracy was, thus, brought to an end. Both the national Independent Election Commission and the international community regarded these elections as "substantially free and fair". On the one hand the success of N. Mandela's ANC - which formed a coalition government with the NP of former President F. W. de Klerk and the rival IFP of M. Buthelezi - allowed the political centre to continue its "negotiated revolution", on the other it gave way to the full reintegration of South Africa in international relations. This article presents a reconstruction of the final stage of this transitional process. After a short summary of the main developments leading to a negotiated settlement (1989-93), analysis is on 1994, i.e. the implosion of the homeland of Bophuthatswana and continued negotiations with IFP, PAC and the rightwing parties in order to reach an "inclusive settlement". The focus is also on technical and political aspects of election preparations and the security situation in the run-up to the elections. Special emphasis is on the voting and counting process and the assessment of these elections by different election observer missions.