📅 2 February 1990
F.W. de Klerk announced that the government would legalise the ANC, the South African Communist Party and other organisations. This was the outcome of decades of organising inside South Africa,...
📅 2 May 1990
The talks began in Cape Town amid continuing violence and distrust. The resulting Groote Schuur Minute set a process for addressing political prisoners, return of exiles and the lifting of emergency...
📅 6 August 1990
The agreement addressed political prisoners, exiles, security laws and the ANC’s suspension of armed action. The ANC entered this step while the apartheid state and homeland administrations retained...
📅 26 September 1992
The ANC and government signed a Record of Understanding that set out steps toward a constitutional assembly and interim government and addressed political prisoners, hostels and violence. The...
📅 11 May 1994
The new government included ministers from the ANC, National Party and Inkatha Freedom Party under the interim constitution. The ANC held the largest share of cabinet portfolios, while the arrangement...
