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unbanning

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On 2 February 1990, President F W de Klerk announced the unbanning of liberation movements and other organisations, the release of political prisoners, the lifting of restrictions on 33 organisations and a moratorium on judicial executions. Nelson Mandela was released from prison on 11 February 1990. Political conflict and violence broke out on both these dates in several areas across the country, but particularly in KwaZulu/Natal between UDF (and ANC) supporters and Inkatha.

... But first we go the Amnesty Committee hearings in Durban. February 2 1990: State President FW de Klerk makes his dramatic speech in Parliament, unbanning the liberation movements and the release of Nelson Mandela and his comrades. For the majority of South Africans this meant the beginning of ...
Two objections were raised against setting these three men free. In the first instance, the murder was committed in 1991, a year after the unbanning of the ANC. In the second instance the Jama family believes that the applicants lied to the Commission. // It seems that their story, that they did ...
... and we’ve had enough.’ // But it was not mistrust that started a war in which thousands would die. The release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 threw the political playing field open for the first time in South African history. ...
DiWitty, it was said, was the top man in the Three Millions, a gang that was seen to be working with the police. // In 1990 after the unbanning of the political parties, a group was formed and was called the Three Million. The situation, as from September 1990 until 1992, was sheer hell in Maokeng. ...
gaining a reputation for political thuggery. They disrupted National Party meetings and heckled speakers around the country. In the 1990s, after the unbanning of the ANC, SACP, PAC and other organisations the AWB started flexing its military muscle and threatened the government with war if the ANC ...
With his speech on the second of February 1990, when he announced the unbanning of not only the ANC but also the SA Communist Party, it became obvious to many people, myself included that Mr. FW de Klerk and his colleagues were preparing to betray us all. On the 26th of May 1990 the late Dr Andries ...
But it is not mistrust which started a war in which thousands would die. The release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 threw the political playing field open for the first time in South African history.
so she may have been seen by the intelligence, well the state’s intelligence services as a significant person in that respect. She also, after the unbanning of the ANC, she was an active ANC member in a politically sensitive area. At the time of her death there were big Inkatha training camps. ...
 
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