The ANC opens its first consultative conference inside South Africa in thirty years

Leaders met in Durban and issued a joint statement seeking ways to end violence in Natal and the Reef townships.

After a Mandela-De Klerk meeting, the government announced that about 20,000 exiles could come home, reversing a major consequence of repression.

Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee announced procedures, but the government and ANC disputed how many prisoners qualified.

ANC mobilizations in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein protested delays in freeing people jailed for resistance to apartheid.

The ANC president came home after leading the external mission through decades of banning, armed struggle and international mobilization.

The movement gave De Klerk a list of officers it believed had participated in township attacks, making state accountability central to negotiations.

The Durban summit called for political tolerance and effective peacekeeping after severe conflict between supporters of the two movements.

The accord affirmed peaceful protest and specified steps for suspending armed action while negotiations advanced.

The human-rights lawyer died when he opened a disguised Walkman bomb intended for former police captain Dirk Coetzee.

The two liberation movements discussed cooperation under mediation by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.