South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town

After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.

Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.

Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.

Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.

South Africa is readmitted into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.

The Greek cruise ship Ship MTS sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.

More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receives South African citizenship.

In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.

South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.

Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).

Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.