- 1990 in South Africa
"See also:"
1989 in South Africa ,
other events of 1990,1991 in South Africa and theTimeline of South African history .----
Events
February
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2 February - President FW de Klerk scrapsapartheid and states thatNelson Mandela will be released
** TheAfrican 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.
*11 February -Nelson Mandela is released from the Victor Verster prisonMarch
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4 March - BrigadierOupa Gqozo of the Ciskei Defence Force leads a coup in the homeland ofCiskei
*12 March -African National Congress presidentOliver Tambo and vice-presidentNelson Mandela meet for the first time in 28 years inSweden
*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 whenpolice open fire on protesters inSebokeng April
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1 April - The South African Transport Services is transformed intoTransnet and theSouth African Rail Commuter Corporation
*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 theVlakplaas counter-insurgency unit, testifies at theHarms commission
*28 April -Michael Lapsley , anAnglican priest and socialactivist , loses both of his hands and an eye when aletter bomb explodes in his handsMay
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4 May - TheGroote Schuur Minute is signed after talks between theSouth Africa n government and theAfrican National Congress inGroote Schuur ,Cape Town
*6 May -Pieter Willem Botha resigns from the National Party in protest against theState President of South Africa Frederik Willem de Klerk 's reform proposalsJune
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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 inVenda
*7 June - President FW de Klerk lifts the state of emergency in South Africa after 10 years in placeAugust
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1 August -African National Congress 's armed wing, theUmkhonto we Sizwe , suspends its armed actions after 29 years
*6 August - ThePretoria Minite is signed after talks between theSouth Africa n government and theAfrican National Congress inPretoria eptember
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11 September - 7 political prisoners are released
* 23-25 September -Frederik Willem de Klerk ,State President of South Africa visits Washington on a state visit
*27 September - 14 political prisoners are releasedOctober
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19 October - The National Party opens its membership to all racesNovember
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4 November - South Africa announced thatHarry Schwarz , a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner in Parliament, would be its next ambassador to the United States. He is the first serving politician from the opposition ranks to be appointed to a senior ambassadorial post in South African history.December
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16 December - TheAfrican National Congress hold a national consultative conference inJohannesburg Unknown date
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Namibia gains independence with theUnited Nations supervising the withdraw ofSouth Africa n forces and the first elections
*George Bizos becomes a member of theAfrican National Congress 's Legal and Constitutional Committeeport
Athletics
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February 24 –David Tsebe wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:09:50 inPort Elizabeth .Births
Deaths
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16 January - PaedophileGert van Rooyen shoots his accomplice and lover,Joey Haarhoff then commitssuicide soon after apolice chase
*20 January - Thomas Mandlenkosi (Mshengu) Shabalala, anInkatha Freedom Party National Council member is shot dead outside his house inLindelani 's C Section, also known as eMadamini, nearKwaMashu ,Durban
*1 May -Jackie Matjili ,Umkhonto we Sizwe member, is shot dead inThokoza
*13 June - Sipho Phungulwa, who was part of a group of exiles who were held inAfrican National Congress detention camps inAngola , is shot dead inUmtata while trying to seek an audience with theTranskei ANC leadership to expose the hardships they had endured in Angola. Ndibulele Ndzamela, Mfanelo Matshaya and Pumlani Kubukeli are later granted amnesty on13 August 1998 in connection with this incident.
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