party, while in KwaZulu/Natal
the IFP won a clear victory over the ANC.
All the other parties did abysmally. Viljoen's Freedom Front won only
2.17 percent of the vote (9 national assembly seats), the Democratic party
won only 1.73 percent (7 seats), and the PAC only 1.25 percent (5 seats). In
large measure, the election was a racial and ethnic census. The National
party had wide support from Coloureds as well as Whites, but the ANC and
PAC were overwhelmingly African, the IFP was overwhelmingly Zulu, and
the Freedom Front and the Democratic parties were overwhelmingly
white. 65
On May 10, 1994, three hundred and forty-two years after the Dutch
East India Company formed a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, lead-
ing to the importation of slaves from Asia and tropical Africa and the con-
quest of his people, Nelson Mandela took the presidential oath in the pres-
ence of the secretary-general of the United Nations, forty-five heads of
state, and delegations from the United States, Russia, China, Japan, Ger-
many, and Great Britain. Reconciliation was the dominant theme of his in-
augural address. "Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disas-
ter that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will
be proud ....