Transitional Government
Mandela and de Klerk oversee the end of apartheid.
The Coalition Government was a Transitional Executive Council, agreed on in November of 1993. The ANC and the National Party agreed to govern jointly until the election in 1994. They also agreed that, after the elections a Transitional Government of National Unity would continue to run the government until the final constitution was adopted. The opportunity to rule jointly with the National Party allowed the ANC to show that they were not just a liberation movement, but a serious political party.
In order to succeed in the new political arena Mandela had to gain the support of more conservative, yet anti-apartheid, ethnic leaders in the countryside and black homelands, while maintaining the support of younger leaders and activists and while mobilizing the violence-prone groups in the townships. He also had to convince members of the ANC to distance themselves from SACP (South African Communist Party), even though a number of the members of the SACP leaders stayed on the ANC’s executive and working committees. Leader of the Nationalist Party, F.W. de Klerk, had to maintain the support of the party’s traditional bases of support among Afrikaners while working to gain or maintain the support from Colored, Indian, and liberal white voters. Then, de Klerk had to reach out to the black communities that were hostile in the past, this action would provoke the white right-wing extremists, who had turned to violence in the past and who were threatening antigovernment insurgency.
In order to succeed in the new political arena Mandela had to gain the support of more conservative, yet anti-apartheid, ethnic leaders in the countryside and black homelands, while maintaining the support of younger leaders and activists and while mobilizing the violence-prone groups in the townships. He also had to convince members of the ANC to distance themselves from SACP (South African Communist Party), even though a number of the members of the SACP leaders stayed on the ANC’s executive and working committees. Leader of the Nationalist Party, F.W. de Klerk, had to maintain the support of the party’s traditional bases of support among Afrikaners while working to gain or maintain the support from Colored, Indian, and liberal white voters. Then, de Klerk had to reach out to the black communities that were hostile in the past, this action would provoke the white right-wing extremists, who had turned to violence in the past and who were threatening antigovernment insurgency.
Sources:
countrystudies.us/south-africa/71.htm
http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/15680/nelson-mandela
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14094918
countrystudies.us/south-africa/71.htm
http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/15680/nelson-mandela
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14094918