C01.67.04 :: Constand Viljoen on the night he decided to go to the polls during South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994

► C01.67.04 :: Constand Viljoen on the night he decided to go to the polls during South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994

Call Number:	C01.67.04
Identifier:	AL3283_C01.67.04
Title:	Constand Viljoen on the night he decided to go to the polls during South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994
Date:	27 April 1994
Subject:	Afrikaner Volksfront; Constand Viljoen; Doug Lee; Election; Freedom Front; Right-wing; South African Defence Force - SADF;
Description:	This colour image of Constand Viljoen is one of a series taken by photographer Doug Lee of the night Viljoen went to the polls during the 1994 elections. Constand Viljoen was former chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and leader of a grouping of right-wing organisations called the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front). In March 1994, an attempt to protect the government of Lucas Mangope in the bantustan of Bophuthatswana during a popular uprising was wrecked by the intervention of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) despite being asked not to participate in the action because of their racist views. After this incident Viljoen left the Volksfront and registered the Freedom Front as a political party to represent conservative Afrikaner interests. It is believed that this decision by Constand Viljoen to finally take part in the 1994 elections prevented a violent uprising by Afrikaners.
Creator:	Doug Lee
Type:	Image
Format:	Access image - jpeg Preservation image - tiff
Source:	SAHA collection AL3283
Coverage:	South Africa
Rights:	Doug Lee