[National election ballot for South Africa general election of April 27, 1994]
Publisher: [Independent Electoral Commision]
Published: 1994
Place of publication: South Africa]
Language: eng
Subjects: Elections; Political parties; Ballot; Specimens; Politics and government; Political science; South Africa. Independent Electoral Commission; South Africa; African National Congress
Other titles: RSA 1994.
Description: Original unused national election ballot for the South Africa general election of April 27, 1994. Printed in full color, with each of the 19 parties represented by a symbol, code, and party leader photograph, including the African National Congress, whose standard bearer Nelson Mandela became president after the election. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), a last-minute addition, was added to the ballot via a printed sticker.
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.

Top of sheet: "RSA 1994" (repeated, reading up, in left margin) with outline map of South Africa, followed by instruction "Make your mark next to the party you choose" in English, Zulu, Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Swazi, Ndebele, and Venda.

Printed on safety background of repeated initials IEC (Independent Election Commission) in undulating lines, shading from grey to orange to grey; line of the same initials runs vertically, reading down, to the right of the list; serial number in upper left corner.

Verso blank.

It is reported that 1.5 million surplus 1994 ballots were purchased at some time by Norris Barker, now of Arizona. As of February 2014 copies were available for purchase at a number of online sites.

Burke Library copy: Serial no. 15257710.