But no one doubts the King could incite - or prevent - havoc as South Africa nears its first nonracial elections in April.

Last week, as the two main parties tried to speed up movement toward the country's first nonracial elections, two other factions reminded everyone that they exist.

Legally speaking, they evaporated in 1994 when the country held its first nonracial elections.

After the country's first nonracial elections in 1994, he was given a job in the National Intelligence Agency.

But the Constitutional Court rejected the document in September, saying that the new charter failed to meet criteria agreed upon before the first nonracial elections in 1994.

Nelson Mandela agreed to expand an amnesty to those who planned a bombing campaign to disrupt South Africa's first nonracial elections.

The last major bombings in South Africa were carried out in April 1994 on the eve of the country's first nonracial elections.

Recent opinion polls have shown the party's support dropping from about 20 percent during the country's first nonracial election in 1994 to about 14 percent now.

The Mahatma, they say, would smile at the negotiating process that has now produced a tentative date for South Africa's first nonracial elections, next April 27.

Since South Africa held its first nonracial elections in 1994, sweeping President Nelson Mandela into office, efforts to integrate schools have largely gone smoothly.