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Years in South Africa


Events

February

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

May

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

September

October

November

  • 4 November – South Africa announced that Harry 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

Unknown date

  • Namibia gains independence with the United Nations supervising the withdraw of South African forces and the first elections
  • George Bizos becomes a member of the African National Congress's Legal and Constitutional Committee

Sport

Athletics

Births

Deaths

  • 16 January – Paedophile Gert van Rooyen shoots his accomplice and lover, Joey Haarhoff then commits suicide soon after a police chase
  • 20 January – Thomas Mandlenkosi (Mshengu) Shabalala, an 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.

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