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Cease Fire: Interim Constitution Accord

Implementations

Cease Fire – 1993

Violence continued after the National Peace Accord of 1991. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) suspended all peace talks with the African National Congress (ANC) on January 16, 1992, accusing it of two violations of the cease-fire agreement. There were also reports of renewed clashes between IFP and ANC followers in Pietermaritzburg on January 15th and 16th, in which 15 houses had been burnt down. There was no report of casualties.¹

Spoiler violence continued, but none of the major parties to the ceasefire agreement returned to armed conflict.

“South Africa Inkatha suspends peace talks with ANC; renewed clashes reported,” BBC Summary of World Broadcasts/The Monitoring Report, January 18, 1992.

Cease Fire – 1994

Multiparty elections were held in April 1994, and South Africa made the transition to democracy. Since the transition to democracy, the ceasefire has been self-enforcing.