In terms of the Accord between the Freedom Front, ANC and National Party, signed only on the eve of the 1994 elections, a council was established in 1994 as a constitutional mechanism to enable proponents of the idea of a Volkstaat to constitutionally pursue the establishment of such a Volkstaat. Its final report, issued in 1999, was handed to the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities established in 2003.