1990 in South Africa
See also:
1989 in South Africa,
other events of 1990,
1991 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.
EventsFebruary 11 February - President FW de Klerk scraps apartheid and releases Nelson Mandela
: - The government state of emergency is lifted after 6 years in place
: - The African National Congress, Pan Africanist Congress and the Communist Party are unbanned
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
August 1 August - African National Congress's armed wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe, suspends its armed actions after 29 years
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 African forces and the first elections George Bizos becames a member of the African National Congress's Legal and Constitutional Committee
Births
Deaths 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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