General elections were held in South Africa on 6 September 1989, the last under apartheid. Snap elections had been called early by the recently elected head ... Conservative Party (South Africa) · 1987 · Andries Treurnicht

The polling thus marked the first time that White, Coloured (mixed-race) and Asian voters cast ballots on the same day for the three distinct Houses of ...

The 1989 South African presidential election resulted in the election of Frederik Willem de Klerk as State President.

The Democratic Party stated a commitment to abolishing apartheid and laying the institutional foundations of a democracy—'we say South Africa is ready for ...

1989: Walter Sisulu moved to Mandela's old cells. Release of Rivonia prisoners. FW De Klerk replaces Botha as Prime Minister and immediately declares the need ...

On 2 February 1989 FW De Klerk was elected leader of The National Party. In a speech in Parliament on 8 February 1989 He said his goal was “A New South ...

Although the National Party lost 17 seats to the right-wing Conservative Party and 12 to the liberal Democratic Party, it did not lose its majority: the greater ...

Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa's Nationalist Party in 1948 to the country's harsh, institutionalized system of racial ...

The elections of April 1994 signaled a major breakthrough in South Africa. Political control was shifting from the white minority to the black majority.

Even so, a 'backs- to-the-wair electoral slogan might have had some appeal, but in opting for May the government was gambling on a decline in the level of ...