« Back to Provision

Constitutional Reform – 1994

Elections for a National Assembly and a Constituent Assembly were held on April 26-29, 1994. The ANC received approximately 62.65% of the votes, or 252 seats, the NP received 20.39% of the votes, or 82 seats, and the IFP received 10.54% of the votes, or 43 seats.¹“Elections in South Africa,” African Election Database, accessed December 2, 2010, http://africanelections.tripod.com/za.html#1994_National_Assembly_Electi…

South Africa’s Constitutional Assembly held its first formal session in Cape Town on August 15, 1994 and began the start of a two-year process to draft a constitution. The two houses of Parliament elected by proportional representation in April 1994 would sit together to form the Constitutional Assembly, which was charged with drafting a constitution in terms of guidelines laid down at multi-party talks in November 1993.