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	Strategic Insights -- South Africa's 2004 Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1994 elections exhibited a duality common to political transitions: the period was filled with the spirit of hope and renewal, but within a climate of insecurity and political intimidation.
		Unlike many European countries, in South Africa the responsibility of registering to vote lies with the individual, who must first possess a specific form of identification (an official, bar-coded identity book) and then apply to be included on the voters' roll by registering at a local office of the Department of Home Affairs.
		The biggest problem encountered on election day pertained to difficulties projecting how many voters were likely to turn up at each station, because South Africans were allowed to cast ballots at any station in the country, provided that they had their bar-coded identity documents with proof that they had registered to vote.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2004/may/piomboMay04.asp (5731 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - South Africa Elections 1999
		Nelson Mandela, who led South Africa from apartheid to democracy, stepped down from public office Wednesday as Thabo Mbeki, his hand-picked successor, was sworn in as president.
		South Africa's soaring crime rate is item No. 1 on voters' minds.
		Crime stalks South Africa's road from apartheid, sapping much-needed confidence in the country and putting many whites to flight.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/safrican.elections (257 words)

	FairVote - Spotlight Three: South Africa's 1994 Elections
		South Africa's highly proportional list PR may be moderated to some extent, but my prediction is that the electoral system used in the next parliamentary election, scheduled to be held in 1999, will still be a list PR system with a high degree of proportional purity.
		South Africa's general election of April 1994 was held under a form of national list PR with half the National Assembly (200) being constituted from nine provincial lists and the other half being constituted from a single national list.
		However, under the plurality simulation for South Africa only 13 (3 percent) seats were won with majorities of less than 10 percent, and thus would be considered "marginals." In effect the system would be frozen in terms of seats won and requiring a political earthquake to jar the patterns of party voting concentration.
	www.fairvote.org /?page=554 (4725 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : ANC commands massive lead in South Africa elections
		South Africa’s 21 million voters on Wednesday cast ballots to elect the 400 members of the National Assembly and representatives to the nine provincial legislatures.
		At home, he has touched a nerve by declaring that South Africa is “two nations”, one white and affluent, the other poor and fl, in a departure from Mandela’s insistence on reconciliation.
		He returned to South Africa in 1990 after the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) was lifted and became a key figure in talks leading to the end of apartheid in 1994.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/world/w116042004.html (981 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - South Africa After Ten Years (print edition)
		South Africa’s national liberation movement can now speak of a countrywide mandate for accelerating the revolutionary process of eliminating apartheid and rebuilding the nation on a non-racial basis.
		In South Africa it means the defeat of apartheid racism, the empowerment of the African majority, and the overcoming of centuries-old racism.
		South Africa is in the process of becoming an advanced democratic state, and is providing vital lessons for the revolutionary movement worldwide.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/183 (1189 words)

	Counting down to DRC elections - SouthAfrica.info
		Malumalu thanked the South African government for the support it had provided in preparing for the elections - the country's first in over 40 years - saying President Thabo Mbeki and his government had "stayed the course in the DRC despite enormous odds".
		South Africa has contributed paper for the printing of the ballot papers and helped distribute voting papers to 14 hubs in the DRC.
		South Africa's defence force, together with United Nations security forces, have been operating in the DRC for some time now to ensure peace and stability in that country.
	www.southafrica.info /africa/drc-240706.htm (329 words)

	Government and Elections in South Africa
		South Africa’s first non-racial democratic election was held in April 1994 and led to the establishment of a Government of National Unity (GNU).
		The December 2000 municipal elections resulted in the ANC being the majority party in 170 municipal councils, the IFP 36, the DA 18, and the UCDC 1.
		South Africa’s third democratic elections for the National Assembly and provincial legislatures are set for April 14, 2004.
	richardknight.homestead.com /files/sigovernmentandelections2004.htm (5258 words)

	Politics of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The present Constitution of South Africa was certified by the Constitutional Court on 4 December 1996, was signed by then President Mandela on 10 December 1996, and entered into effect on 3 February 1997; it is being implemented in phases.
		The bicameral Parliament of South Africa consists of the National Assembly (400 seats; members are elected by popular vote under a system of proportional representation to serve five-year terms) and the National Council of Provinces (90 seats, 10 members elected by each of the nine provincial legislatures for five-year terms).
		Although South Africa's economy is in many areas highly developed, the exclusionary nature of apartheid and distortions caused in part by the country's international isolation until the 1990s have left major weaknesses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_South_Africa (1516 words)

	“Traditional” Dictatorship: One Party State in KwaZulu Homeland Threatens Transition to Democracy (Human ...
		In Natal, as elsewhere in South Africa, the practice of segregation for South Africans of African descent established by the British was refined by the National Party government after its victory in the 1948 election.
		One of the problems facing the KZP is certainly that it is understaffed in relation to the population and area that it is expected to patrol, as is the case for the police force in South Africa generally.
		Speaking to Africa Watch on January 27, 1993, Gavin Woods, Executive Director of the Inkatha Institute, stated that he had not heard specific refutations of the ANC's allegations and that the ANC might therefore perhaps be given "the benefit of the doubt" regarding allegations of police misbehavior in Esikhawini.
	hrw.org /reports/1993/southafrica2 (17672 words)

	CNN - South Africa elections mostly peaceful - Nov. 1, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eighteen months after their first free elections, the people of South Africa again went to the polls.
		South Africans are creating the nuts and bolts of real democracy after years of an oppressive apartheid system.
		The process of South Africa's social integration continues in a country where "white" no longer signifies race, but the color of a ballot for all.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /WORLD/9511/safrica_elections/index.html (405 words)

	South Africa - Elections '99 - Sustainable Democracy - SARDC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Touted as Africa's largest, most technologically advanced media operation to cover an election, South Africa's election centre is replete with strobe lights, dozens of television cameras, hundreds of computers and giant electronic screens monitoring results hourly.
		South Africa's President-elect Thabo Mbeki made these words his campaign mantra as pundits and politicians alike claimed the African National Congress's failed policies on jobs and crime would turn off the 18.3 million voters in yesterday's
		elections was momentarily marred by a major counting blunder which erroneously credited the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) with more than a million non-existent votes.
	www.sardc.net /sd/elections99/southafrica/index.html (262 words)

	The Militant - 11/20/95 -- ANC Wins Big In South Africa Elections
		With the election of nearly 700 metropolitan, urban, and rural councils, the remnants of the hated local structures of apartheid have been swept away.
		National and regional elections were held in April 1994, in which the ANC won a solid majority with 63 percent of the vote.
		Speculation was rife in the big-business press that the elections would register declining support for the ANC, due to a "failure to deliver" widespread improvements in the standard of living and quality of life across the country for the impoverished majority.
	www.themilitant.com /1995/5943/5943_14.html (1168 words)

	South Africa - The 1994 Elections
		An elections administrator, or chief electoral officer, prepared a list based on the population registry of people who were qualified to register as voters.
		In the 1989 parliamentary election, for example, only 2,176,481 votes were cast, out of 3,170,667 registered voters and a total population of almost 28 million.
		Finally, the election posed a logistical nightmare for the IEC, which had to accommodate the IFP's last-minute decision to participate in the elections and add the party's name to the ballots.
	countrystudies.us /south-africa/77.htm (698 words)

	African Studies Center \| South Africa Page
		To serve the South African forestry industry by undertaking relevant, timeous research that has the objective of supplying the commercial timer producers with the information required to optimise the beneficial use of forestry resources in South Africa.
		The Southern African Migration Project is a three-year, multi-faceted research programme designed to facilitate the formulation and implementation of new policy initiatives on cross-border population migration in the region and to promote public awareness on the role, status and contribution of foreign immigrants of African origin in South Africa.
		This website includes detailed historical background and description of South Africa's electoral system, election results lookup facility with clickable provincial maps for the 1994 and 1999 general elections, and information about the April 14, 2004 general election.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Country_Specific/S_Africa.html (777 words)

	OAU Sends Observers To South Africa's Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) said Monday it had sent a team of 65 observers to South Africa for the country's second all-race elections.
		South Africa goes to the polls on Wednesday.
		The team arrived in South Africa on Sunday and will stay there until June 5.
	www.anc.org.za /elections/news/en060140.html (98 words)

	afrol News - Doubts over South Africa's al Qaeda arrests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The arrests had been made shortly before South Africa's elections and police hold they were planning an attack in the country.
		The reports of a possible cell of al Qaeda terrorists operating in South Africa has shocked the national public, which largely feels the country is safe regarding international terrorism.
		South Africa's Safety and Security Minister, Charles Nqakula, only on 17 March had stated there were no "al Qaeda cells in South Africa," the DA spokesman recalled.
	www.afrol.com /articles/12783 (736 words)

	The Xhosa People - South Africa History
		Only after the first really free elections in South Africa in 1994 was the Homeland policy abolished, after which the areas were integrated into the new provinces.
		In the middle of the 19th century, all the land formerly inhabited by Xhosa was in the hands of white settlers.
		With the founding of the South African Union in 1910, the British colony and the independent Boer Republics were united.
	www.southafrica-travel.net /history/eh_xhosa.htm (318 words)

	BBC News \| South Africa elections \| South Africa's crime crisis
		A serious crime is committed every 17 seconds in South Africa and Johannesburg is the epicentre of the crisis.
		But in South Africa it is different - the armed men don't always give you the chance to hand the car over.
		It's also an extreme irritant - as for some white South Africans, crime and how in their view the country has gone to the dogs since a fl government took over five years ago, is a favourite topic of conversation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/05/99/south_africa_elections/353596.stm (627 words)

	A/RES/48/233. Democratic and non-racial elections in South Africa
		Urges all parties in South Africa, including those which did not participate fully in the multi-party talks, to respect agreements reached during the negotiations, to adhere to democratic principles and to take part in the elections; 5.
		Expresses its grave concern at the threat of the ongoing violence to the process of peaceful change, and calls upon all parties to promote the full participation of all South Africans in the democratic process in all parts of South Africa by exercising restraint and by refraining from acts of violence and intimidation; 6.
		Calls upon all parties in South Africa to respect the safety and security of the international observers and to facilitate the carrying out of their mandate; 8.
	www.un.org /documents/ga/res/48/a48r233.htm (202 words)

	Elections in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Africa is a democratic but one party dominant state with the African National Congress in power.
		Members to the local governing councils in the municipalities and mayors are elected in municipal elections.
		After the 1992 referendum, deciding to end apartheid, universal suffrage was implemented allowing people of all races to take part in the first democratic elections in 1994.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_South_Africa (334 words)

	COSATU in South Africa
		While negotiations to end apartheid have gone on over the past year, the South African government has moved quickly to privatize many of the enormous state enterprises which constitute the heart of the country's industrial economy, thus removing them from the control of a new ANC government.
		Together with the ANC and the South African Communist Party, they were forced to conduct their activities underground for many years.
		Very powerful forces in South Africa are opposed to democracy, and are determined to use any means, including extremely violent means, to destabilize our democratic transition." The task of educating voters amid violent intimidation seems daunting.
	www.nathannewman.org /EDIN/.labor/.files/.internat/.COSATU.html (1568 words)

	CIPE Development Blog » Elections in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The disparities between South Africa’s mainly middle-class beneficiaries of economic transformation and their less well-off countrymen has been brought into focus during the run-up to local government elections on 1 March.
		Elections are stirring up controversy in South Africa, as people went to the polls today to choose their municipal leaders.Â The economic divide is evident and can’t be ignored:
		One is advanced, sophisticated and diversified, based on skilled labour which has become more globally competitive; the other is mainly informal, marginalised, and unskilled populated by those who are unemployable or under-employed by the formal sector.
	www.cipe.org /blog/?p=124 (263 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1999 \| 05/99 \| South Africa elections \| South Africa elections: Special report
		South Africans braved long queues on 2 June to cast their votes in the country's second multi-racial elections.
		Greg Barrow travels across South Africa on the eve of the vote to assess the mood.
		Links to more South Africa elections stories are at the foot of the page.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/05/99/south_africa_elections/354153.stm (149 words)

	Elections in South Africa
		These former South African Homelands or bantustans ceased to exist 27 Apr 1994 and were re-incorporated into South Africa, and all were absorbed into the new provinces.
		Total Votes: N/A [Voter Turnout: N/A] The first general elections to the Ciskei’s Legislative Assembly are held in the territory’s nine districts.
		Total Votes: N/A [Voter Turnout: N/A] In the elections, opponents of bantustan policy won a majority of the 45 elected seats, but they were outnumbered by 64 appointed Chiefs who became members of the assembly.
	africanelections.tripod.com /za_homelands.html (597 words)

	Vote Counting Almost Completed in South Africa's Elections
		Speaking at the same briefing, IEC Chairperson Dr Brigalia Bam said the successful completion of counting, with the exception of Ekurhuleni confirmed that South Africa's electoral democracy had indeed matured.
		She commended political parties for the manner they conducted themselves throughout the process by adhering to the Electoral Code of Conduct, saying together with the voters and the IEC staff, they were the real stars of elections.
		She said the IEC was working with speed and vigour to be able to announce the results quite soon.
	www.dfa.gov.za /docs/2004/elec0416.htm (405 words)

	Landslide ANC Victory in South African elections - South Africa \| general
		With more than 96 percent of the results in from South Africa's third democratic general election, the African National Congress is celebrating its largest victory ever.
		Ten years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains plagued by poverty, unemployment, AIDS and crime.
		He will be inaugurated for his second term on April 27, as South Africa celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first democratic elections.
	www.warmafrica.com /index/geo/5/cat/1/a/a/artid/525 (623 words)

	AfricaBlog: Will the ANC Win? Archives
		The regular interval of political change, accepting the ebb and flow of political favor, and trusting the government to reflect the will of the voters is the very basis of stability.
		The real story in South Africa is that a representative government is being allowed the opportunity to continue to slowly change a country (hopefully) for the better, and that its citizens have faith enough to allow that to happen.
		I look forward to the day when South Africans will vote for issues rather than as a nod to their "liberators." South African politics are still mostly a matter of color.
	africa.resurrectionsong.com /archives/002642.html (482 words)

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