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Handbook for national observers to South Africa's first democratic elections, including an overview of the role of national observers, the administrative structure of the election process, the voting and counting process, security information for observers and instructions for observers for the voting and counting process. In addition, the Code of Conduct for observers is reprinted and background information on the negotiation process leading to the elections is given. (DÜI-Eng)

Handbook for the more than 200,000 national presiding and voting officers who conducted South Africa's first democratic elections. Training course-style information is provided on the selection of electoral officers, the layout of voting stations as well as voting days and hours. Special emphasis is on the duties of voting officers during voting days and the secrecy of the vote. Further information is provided on different groups of people who interact with voting officers during voting days, i.e. observers, monitors and party voting agents. (DÜI-Eng)

This paper explored the possibilities laden in the traditional justice administrative practices among the Ibibios of Akwa Ibom State and their incorporation into formal judicial structures for the administration of justice in the state. The advocacy was founded on the truism of the weaknesses of formal judicial administrative structures to adequately deliver on expected roles. This lent credence to the adoption of structural functionalism as the theoretical framework of analysis. Though combining both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the paper dwelt on the analysis of 400 responses to questionnaire materials (through a simple random sampling method) from a population estimate of 2,338,538 Ibibio indigenes. After analysis, it was concluded that both civil and criminal conflicts are likely resolved through Mbiam as a judicial instrument among the Ibibios of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The paper recommended, among others, that instead of pretending that it does not exist, government should study the practice of mbiam as a traditional method of conflict resolution and seek ways of refining it to suit modern day realities.