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Powersharing Transitional Government – 1996

Power-sharing continued under the National Unity Government provisions of the 1993 interim constitution. It was expected to last until 1999. Nevertheless, once the National Assembly adopted the final constitution on May 8, 1996, the National Party announced its withdraw from the government of national unity by the end of June 1996.¹ The the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Azanian People’s Organisation hold seats in the government.

Power-sharing under the National Unity Government provisions of the 1993 interim constitution ended in 1996.

1. “South Africa,” Keesing’s Record of World Events (formerly Keesing’s Contemporary Archives) (Volume 42), 1996, 41078.