EVENT INFORMATION

6
August
1990

ANC and government agree to the Pretoria Minute

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Organization history 📅 6 August 1990 📍 South Africa

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 coercive power, and implementation remained contested. The Minute marked movement toward negotiations without resolving the unequal structures or ongoing violence that shaped them.

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ANC

South African government

Nelson Mandela

F.W. de Klerk

Umkhonto we Sizwe

Organizations in this Event

African National Congress