COMSA calls on SA to move towards election

Date: 17 Feb 1993
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA), concluded that based on its homicide rate, this country was one of the most violent in the world. COMSA, a fifteen-member team, which consisted of police, military, legal and political experts, further concluded that South Africa's best hope of containing the violence was to move speedily toward democratic elections and a durable resolution of the country's political crisis.

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01O'Malley, P., 1993, from The O'Malley Report, [online], Available at www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 22 January 2014]

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). COMSA calls on SA to move towards election. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013078

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