Legal action against election results

Date: 27 Jun 1996
Updated: 22 Aug 2019

The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applied to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared null and void and for polling to be repeated in those areas. This followed African National Congress (ANC) complaints about administrative chaos and intimidation during the second election of a democratic South Africa under ANC government. However, President Nelson Mandela said the polls had largely been free and fair. Source: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

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