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EVENTS

February

2 February - President FW De Klerk scraps Apartheid and releases Nelson Mandela

--- The African National Congress , Pan Africanist Congress and the Communist Party are unbanned

3 February - Rainbow People's March, a small group of demonstrators express support for the new South Africa by dancing down Adderley Street with a painting by artist, Beezy Bailey.

March

4 March - Brigadier Oupa Gqozo of the Ciskei Defence Force leads a coup in the homeland of Ciskei

12 March - African National Congress president Oliver Tambo and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in 28 years in Sweden

26 March - The Minister of Education Piet Clase announces that as of January 1991 , the segregation of Whites and Blacks in state run schools is no more

--- 11 people are killed and more than 300 injured when Police open fire on protesters in Sebokeng

April

16 April - Nelson Mandela thanks the world in the Wembley Stadium , London , for support during his imprisonment

25 April - Dirk Coetzee , former South African Police Commander of the Vlakplaas Counter-insurgency unit, testifies at the Harms Commission

28 April - Michael Lapsley , an Anglican Priest and social Activist , looses both of his hands and an eye when a Letter Bomb explodes in his hands

May

2 - 4 May - The Groote Schuur Minite is signed after talks between the South Africa n government and the African National Congress in Groote Schuur , Cape Town

6 May - Pieter Willem Botha resigns from the National Party in protest against the State President Of South Africa Frederik Willem De Klerk 's reform proposals

June

4 June - Nelson Mandela starts a thirteen-nation international tour

5 June - Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana, Chairman of the Venda Council for National Unity, announces the lifting of the state of emergency and the unconditional release of all political prisoners in Venda

7 June - President FW De Klerk lifts the state of emergency in South Africa after 10 years in place

August

1 August - African National Congress 's armed wing, the Umkhonto We Sizwe , suspends its armed actions after 29 years

6 August - The Pretoria Minite is signed after talks between the South Africa n government and the African National Congress in Pretoria

September

11 September - 7 political prisoners are released

27 September - 14 political prisoners are released

December

14 - 16 December - The African National Congress hold a national consultative conference in Johannesburg

Unknown date

Namibia gains independence with the United Nations supervising the withdraw of South Africa n forces and the first elections

George Bizos becames a member of the African National Congress 's Legal and Constitutional Committee

BIRTHS

DEATHS

16 January - Padeophile Gert Van Rooyen shots his accomplice and lover, Joey Haarhoff then commits Suicide soon after a Police chase

20 January - Thomas Mandlenkosi (Mshengu) Shabalala , a Inkatha Freedom Party National Council member is shot dead outside his house in Lindelani 's C Section, also known as eMadamini, near KwaMashu , Durban

1 May - Jackie Matjili , Umkhonto We Sizwe member, is shot dead in Thokoza

13 June - Sipho Phungulwa, who was part of a group of exiles who were held in African National Congress detention camps in Angola , is shot dead in Umtata while trying to seek an audience with the Transkei ANC leadership to expose the hardships they had endured in Angola. Ndibulele Ndzamela, Mfanelo Matshaya and Pumlani Kubukeli are later granted amnesty on 13 August 1998 in connection with this incident.