Mandela met members of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (EPG), an international mission seeking a path toward negotiations and an end to apartheid. The meeting gave a jailed ANC leader a voice in an international diplomatic effort, but he spoke from a position the government had imposed: imprisoned, banned from public political activity, and separated from his organisation’s leadership. Scholarly accounts date the group meeting to 12 March; other chronologies give 16 March.
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What did De Klerk announce on 2 February 1990?
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The unbanning was a major political change, but apartheid continued.
The ANC was unbanned on 2 February 1990.
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De Klerk announced the unbanning of the ANC and other political organisations.