Tension, intolerance, hostilities and hatred characterise political and human relations between
the ANC and the IPF, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal but also in the rest of the country.
In the Run‐up to the 1999 elections, both academia and the media assumed that there would be a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote. This article challenges this assumption through a disaggregation of the election results.