Now some of its leading citizens are promoting a plan for a multiracial government in the province, hoping that it will head off demands for black majority rule.

His associates expect him to go to South Africa to advise the Afrcian National Congress on elections and the formation of a multiracial government.

We have a multiracial government, and people have got used to the idea of integrated residential areas.

The British themselves insisted on handing over power only to a multiracial government, and the Alliance was considered to meet this requirement.

In December 1991 the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) began negotiations on the formation of a multiracial transitional government and a new constitution extending political rights to all groups.

President Babangida of Nigeria said there would be no diplomatic relations before South Africa formed a multiracial transitional government.

The 24th South African Parliament was the third Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of multiracial government in South Africa in 1994.

Pressure for Constitution But Mr. Babangida also said that diplomatic relations would not be forthcoming before South Africa formed a multiracial transitional government.

An estimated 10,000 people, mostly blacks, have died in political violence in South Africa since February 1990, and elections for a multiracial government are five months away.

At the time, the Democratic Party was perceived as merely a minor party of white liberals, an oddity in the first multiracial government of South Africa.