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Drained but proud: how it felt to organise South Africa’s first democratic election in just 4 months

By Kealeboga J Maphunye, Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa

The electoral commission had only four months for work which normally takes two to three years. In the end, the election succeeded because the nation wanted it to succeed.

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