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eventREF E-0013078Revised

17 February 1993

COMSA calls on SA to move towards election

Updated
30 Sep 2019
COMSA calls on SA to move towards election

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.

How we know this

  1. 01O'Malley, P., 1993, from The O'Malley Report, [online], Available at www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 22 January 2014]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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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

South African History Online (2011) 'COMSA calls on SA to move towards election', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013078 (Accessed: 7 October 2026).

South African History Online, COMSA calls on SA to move towards election [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013078, (accessed 7 October 2026).

"COMSA calls on SA to move towards election." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013078. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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

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