President FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices

On  24 March 1993; South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the existence of a South African nuclear programme as well as the fact that the Apartheid regime had successfully constructed six indigenous nuclear devices.  South Africa had initiated this programme to deter what it considered a major Soviet threat to its sovereignty. This also meant that these weapons were constructed to prop up the Apartheid regime. After having spent millions of rands developing the technologies necessary to enable the production of nuclear weapons, the Apartheid regime then completely dissolved and disassembled the entire programme  in the twilight of the negotiations between the Apartheid State and Liberation movements.