IFP makes election threat

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Date: 15 March, 1994

Officials of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that it would not present its list of election candidates to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) unless its constitutional demands were met. Following indications by opinion polls that the African National Congress (ANC) would win free and fair elections in KwaZulu-Natal IFP leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, cautioned that a liberation war was imminent if elections proceeded without him.

References:

Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for March 1994, p 39894.