An interim Constitution for South Africa, providing for an elected Constituent Assembly' that will be charged with drafting a final constitution within two years,2 was approved by South Africa's last racially defined Parliament on 22 December 1993.3 Nearly four years of negotiations led to agreement on an interim Constitution between the minority South African government, led by the National Party, its historical opponent, the African National Congress, and eighteen other leaders in the Plenary of the Multiparty Negotiating Process on 18 November 1993.4 With the endorsement of the new Constitution, "black and white leaders renounced the racist past and embraced a Bill of Rights promising South Africans freedom of speech, movement and political activity and other liberties that in the past were reserved mainly for whites."5