This Day in History: November 18, 1993
Additional Date: November 18, 1993
Delegates at the multiparty Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiation endorsed the Interim Constitution according to which SA would have a Government of National Unity (GNU) for 5 years after its first democratic elections on 27 April 1994. This document was the final product of the amended draft issued in July 1993. The final draft included concessions to demands for a federal government by the Freedom Alliance, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the right wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and the now defunct Conservative Party (CP). They demanded that provinces should be given powers to draft their own constitutions. Although the majority of the negotiators endorsed the constitution the Freedom Alliance rejected it..