Vry en regverdig,...in Suid Afrika??  In Suid Afrika is niks en niemand meer vry nie, en regverdig is 'n woord uit die woordeskat van die Afrikaners wat 47 jaar terug dateer.

Meer oor “vry en regverdige verkiesings”, Suid-Afrikaanse styl, ook die een wat vir aanstaande jaar beplan word (uittreksel uit 'n onderhoud tussen Padraig O'Malley (POM) en Koos van der Merwe (KVDM) van die Inkatha-Vryheidsparty, 20 Nov 1994): POM I want to talk about the IFP, three things, one is the elections and local elections next year and the rift between Buthelezi and the King. One, you had a situation coming up to April 27th where the country was slowly sliding towards chaos, Then you had Buthelezi saying, "I'll come in, I'll contest the elections." Immediately an aura of calm prevailed throughout the country, the violence died down. You had elections held that were immediately called free and fair by the international community, by observer groups, by the media. Then you had a small problem, you had complaints by the ANC and the NP, in Natal particularly but also in other areas of the country, about vote rigging and pirate stations. Then you had the ordeal of the count where up to 30 million votes may have been lost.

KVM     Not 30 million. Ballot papers. But many millions of ballot papers.

POM     Millions anyway. So then you had a result that emerged from all that in which everybody became a winner. Buthelezi got Natal, the National Party got the Western Cape and the ANC got a large majority but not a majority that would put the country into a one party state. It has been suggested ...

     KVM     That a deal was struck in the Cabinet and the leaders in the Cabinet and the way I read you, wasn't the whole thing planned?

POM     Brokered in the end, that in the end if you needed a result that the legitimacy ...

KVM     ... the senior partners. I have no evidence of that but it sounds to me the type of thing that happened and I will tell you, if you were to rely scientifically on the election it was simply a farce, where thousands of people were waiting to vote they couldn't vote on the Thursday, they waited. Now blacks have a culture of waiting. They just throw their brains in neutral and sit there, they stand, three hours, five hours, a day. I know some of the Thokoza, four or six of the senior Zulu Indunas get in a car here and they go to Durban and they go to Buthelezi's office and they say, "We are here from the Transvaal and we would like to see him." And then they said, "OK he's not here at the moment, he's coming back from Cape Town or overseas late." And then they wait and they get lunch and they get dinner, they get a place to sleep and sometimes they wait three or four days and then he arrives and says, "I believe you want to see me", and then they talk to him. We have appointments.