National Bureau of Statistics. Mandela headed a Government of National Unity dominated by the ANC-which had no practical experience of governing by itself-but containing reps from the National Party and Inkatha. The government has been engaged in a conflict with rebels in the Ogaden region considering the fact that 2007. The most important opposition social gathering in 2005 was the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD). Staloff, Darren (2005).