After a first sentimental flush of popularity, ' gestures towards reversing the results of the French Revolution quickly lost him support among the disenfranchised majority.

The South African Government today unveiled some of its proposed mechanisms for a new constitution that would extend political rights to the disenfranchised black majority.

At the same time, he said, the Government will proceed with negotiations for a national council to discuss constitutional accommodations of the disenfranchised black majority.

A legal commission studying the feasibility of a bill of rights for South Africa has concluded that it would have to include the right to vote for the country's disenfranchised black majority.

During South Africa's rule under apartheid, the SAP operated in close conjunction with South Africa's military to quell civil unrest amongst the country's disenfranchised black majority.

Such a song on Savuka's new album is "One Hu(man) One Vote," which advocates sharing the vote with South Africa's disenfranchised black majority.

This was attributed to some extent to heightened expectations among the disenfranchised majority, and, in Natal, to a bitter struggle for political control of the townships.

The deference the government is showing him points to the recognition, finally, that Mr Mandela is the symbolic leader of the disenfranchised black majority, and that he is, accordingly, a key player.

I asked what would happen if President de Klerk, who has promised whites a referendum on a new Constitution, opened it up to the disenfranchised black majority.

Known as plebeians (literally 'the many'), the disenfranchised majority slowly wrested concessions from the patrician class in the more than two centuries that followed the founding of the republic.