Kenyan mediates in SA election deadlock

Kenyan Professor Washington J. Okumu urged Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) agreed following talks between President F.W. de Klerk , Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi to participate in the elections. Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini called on his subjects to take part in the election. The details of the meeting were not made public. Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Chairman Judge Johann Kriegler, when asked how Kenyan mediator had broken the election deadlock, side-stepped the question of international mediation which led to the breakthrough and Inkatha's participation in South Africa's first democratic polls the following week. The main elements of the Agreement for Reconciliation and Peace were:   the IFP agreed to participate in the general election the parties agreed to recognise and protect the institution of the Zulu king and the Kingdom of KwaZulu, for which purpose the interim constitution would be amended before the election any outstanding issues in respect of the King of the Zulus and the 1993 Constitution as amended will be addressed by way of international mediation. Accordingly the IFP recognised the interim constitution and committed itself to the election process and the election date.