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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1990

February 2 : ANC, SACP, PAC, COSATU and other political organisations unbanned.

February 11 : Mandela released. Thousands upon thousands wait in the streets of Cape Town to greet him

ANC and de Klerk Government agree to negotiate future of South Africa

Malibongwe Women's Conference held in Amsterdam. 100 women, many of whom were members of the ANC Women's League in South Africa, funded by Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement are permitted to travel out of the country for the first time.

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