Volume 41, Number 17 · October 20, 1994
The Election Mandela Lost
By William Finnegan
Although the victory of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in the historic South African elections in April was widely expected, the ANC actually lost badly to F. W. de Klerk's National Party in the Western Cape—a major province that includes Cape Town, the country's second-biggest city and the site of the National Parliament. This loss went largely unremarked by the international press, but it was a serious one for Mandela and for the liberation movement, whose members had fought desperately in the last weeks of the campaign to stave it off. Their defeat has deep implications for the country's future.
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