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white electorate

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A whites-only referendum gives the negotiation process a mandate from white voters

📅 17 March 1992

The white electorate voted in a referendum on continuing negotiations to end apartheid; 68.7 percent voted yes. Mandela and the ANC supported a yes vote as a tactical way to keep negotiations...