The first non-racial elections where held in 1994 to mark the end of apartheid.
The current constitution, the country's fifth, was drawn up by the Parliament elected in 1994 in the first non-racial elections.
From the first non-racial election, in 1994, the A.N.C. has dominated the government.
She was elected to parliament when Zimbabwe held non-racial elections in 1980.
In the first non-racial elections held in South Africa in 1994 the party contested both parliamentary and provincial elections.
A temporary Electoral Commission was created in 1993 to manage the first non-racial election of the national and provincial legislatures, which was held on 26-29 April 1994.
On current trends the party will be lucky to get a fifth of the vote at the non-racial election now less than a year away (the tentative date is April 1994).
The ANC had previously insisted that the drafting should be left to a Constituent Assembly chosen in a non-racial election.
It has just had its second democratic, non-racial election - in peace and with no charges of corruption in the process.
Under de Klerk's proposals non-racial elections for an interim government would not be held until March 1994.