Independent Electoral Commission

Special voting begins in the first democratic election

📅 26 April 1994

Elderly, disabled, hospitalized and election personnel voted before the main polling day, beginning the formal transfer to majority rule.

South Africans vote in the first nonracial democratic election

📅 27 April 1994

For the first time, adult citizens of every racial classification voted together for a national government after centuries of colonialism and apartheid.