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eventREF E-0013140Revised

15 March 1994

IFP makes election threat

IFP makes election threat

Updated
30 Sep 2019
IFP makes election threat

Officials of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would not present their list of election candidates to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) unless their constitutional demands were met. Following indications by opinion polls that the African National Congress (ANC) would win free and fair elections in KwaZulu-Natal, IFP leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi cautioned that a liberation war was imminent if elections proceeded without him.

How we know this

  1. 01Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for March 1994, p 39894.
  2. 02O'Malley, P., '1994', from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, [online], Available at www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 17 February 2014]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). IFP makes election threat. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013140

South African History Online (2011) 'IFP makes election threat', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013140 (Accessed: 8 November 2026).

South African History Online, IFP makes election threat [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013140, (accessed 8 November 2026).

"IFP makes election threat." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013140. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

South African History Online. "IFP makes election threat." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013140.

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