In 1992 the South African government decided to call an end-of-apartheid referendum with the question whether the negotiations with the ANC and other parties for a new constitution should continue.
In the last months of 1992 the NP-led government, the ANC and other important groups came to an accord to develop a new constitution.
These constitutional principals set out a proportional electoral system based on the principle of One man, one vote, instead of power sharing between different cultural groups in South Africa.
The moderate Volkstaters, led by General Constand Viljoen, left the Afrikaner Volksfront and established their own party: the Freedom Front.
The ANC, Freedom Front and the NP-led government of South Africa came to an agreement on 23 April 1994.
[1][6][7] The Accord on Afrikaner self-determination was signed on 23 April 1994 in Pretoria, four days before the first multiracial general elections of South Africa.
At 25 January 1994 the Interim Constitution was signed into law by State President De Klerk.
Following this chapter, the Volkstaat Council Act was signed into law on 2 December 1994 by president Nelson Mandela.
[10] After the provincial elections of 1994 it was found that there was enough support for the erection of the Volkstaat Council, which task would be to map the possibilities of Afrikaner self-determination.
Between 1994 and 1996 the Volkstaat Council also participated during the design of a new constitution and political order of South Africa.
[15] The new 1996 constitution of South Africa acknowledges the right of self-determination of separate cultural and linguistic groups: The right of the South African people as a whole to self-determination, as manifested in this Constitution, does not preclude, within the framework of this right, recognition of the notion of the right of self-determination of any community sharing a common cultural and language heritage; within a territorial entity in the Republic or in any other way, determined by national legislation.Before implemented, this article - and the whole new constitution - was reviewed by the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
The main founders of the Freedom Front were Constand Viljoen, Pieter Mulder and Carel Boshoff.
Since 2000 there have been negotiations between Orania and the South African and Northern Cape governments about the status of the village.
[18][19] No agreement has been reached and Orania is the only village outside of the municipal structure of South Africa, because it still has its own transitional representative council in place.