ANC’s Nelson Mandela in a historic political rally

Date: 1 Apr 1990
Updated: 31 Mar 2021

African National Congress's deputy president Nelson Mandela addressed a crowd of 300 000 in Port Elizabeth in what was described as South Africa's biggest ever political rally. Mandela announced to the crowd that he would be meeting President F.W. de Klerk in order to discuss the intensification of violence throughout the country, with specific reference to KwaZulu-Natal and the Rand where things were getting out of hand. On the very same day, Mandela flew to KwaZulu-Natal to see for himself what the violence had done to that region.

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01Baloyi, J.S. (2002): Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in KwaZulu-Natal, 1985-1994 : Pretoria: University of Pretoria
02Keesing's Record of World Events: News Digest for March 1994 , p 37305.

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