Security Council examines violence in South Africa

At the instigation of a letter titled the Question of South Africa from the Charge D'affaires of the permanent mission of Madagascar to the United Nations the Security Council convened on 15 and 16 July to examine concerns about violence in South Africa and appropriate actions to end it. In order to address the concerns of all parties, the Security Council invited the Organisation of African Unity now the African Union, Forty-Eight Member States as well as the African National Congress President Nelson Mandela, Pan African Congress President Clarence Makwetu and South Africa's Foreign Minister Roelof "Pik" Botha, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and other leaders such as Bantu Holomisa and Lucas Mangope to make their representation. The Security Council resolved that all parties should work together for the effective implementation of the National Peace Accords and that the international community to maintain existing measures to bring about an end to violence in South Africa. Click here to read our This Day in History entry: Major political organisations sign the National Peace Accords. Click here to read the resolution. References: South African History Online http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/011/24/IMG/NR001124.pdf?OpenElement