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| | CNN - Voting period ends in South Africa's 2nd all-race election - June 2, 1999 |
 | | With opinion polls showing the ANC far ahead, two questions remained to be resolved by the election: whether or not the ruling party would pull two-thirds of the vote, giving it the power to amend South Africa's constitution, and which of 15 other parties would take second place and become the ANC's official opposition. |
 | | The former apartheid National Party, renamed the The New National Party, and the liberal Democratic Party, which between them can claim the support of most whites, were vying for second place with polls giving each around 8 percent. |
 | | The party was forged from a union between ANC renegade Bantu Holomisa, former military ruler of the apartheid-era fl Transkei homeland, and former National Party strategist Roelf Meyer. |
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