ii eWorld The Sun Thursday, March 4, 1999 Page 13a South Africa to elect successor to Mandela on June 2 Foreign Digest huge majority, and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, Mandela's choice, likely will assume office. The ANC won 63 percent of the vote in 1994 in the first post-apartheid voting. Polls show its standing now at about 54 percent, with the defectors joining the undecided column. That's enough to control Parliament but short of the often-stated goal of a two-thirds majority, which would give the party the power to alter the Constitution. The ANC says its policies won't change much in the country's next chapter.
But change must be speeded up, it says. istration drive this weekend. In two previous drives, just over half of the country's estimated 25 million voters signed up, despite personal appeals by Mandela and others to encourage a greater turnout. Aware that voter apathy would undermine the moral mandate of the ruling African National Congress, Mandela urged the young in particular to register. "The voices of our veterans re minded us once more that we should never take our freedom for granted," he said.
Voter registration has been marred by disorganization and legal challenges, mainly by white opposition parties. The parties say the election rules favor supporters oftheANC. In one sense, the election is unusual iiTthat the contest will be no contest. The ANC will win by a Provincial elections scheduled on same day FROM WIRE REPORTS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Ending months of speculation, President Nelson Mandela told Parliament yesterday that South Africans will go to the polls i': I 1 -i at somple June 2 to choose his successor. The vote will lead to the departure from politics of the 80-year-old Mandela, the esteemed elder statesman who, because he served 29 years in prison, never had a chance to be a younger statesman.
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