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Events

A Eskom sub-station in Glenwood, Durban is damaged by explosion, later police defuse a second bomb found nearby
Explosion at an Eskom sub-station in Sandhurst, Johannesburg
A limpit mine explodes at home of the chair of the Ministers Council in the House of Delegates in Benoni
An explosion at aircraft factory in Ciskei
Two municipal police are killed in grenade attack on Katlehong's Municipal Police Station
8 January - The African National Congress announces that it will start dismantling its guerrilla camps in Angola in support of the peace process
18 January - State President of South Africa P.W. Botha has a mild stroke
19 January - Chris Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, is appointed Acting State President

An ailing State President Pieter Willem Botha steps down from the presidency
Trevor Manuel is released from detention under stringent restriction orders
An explosion at a municipal police barracks in Soweto, injures four policemen
An explosion next to a police parade in Katlehong kills a municipal constable and injures nine others
A limpet explodes at the home of the commander of Katlehong Police Station, Col. D. Dlamini

An explosion outside the Natal Command HQ on Durban's beachfront
15 - 21 March - A conference of African National Congress' chief representatives and regional treasurers is held in Gran, Norway

there was an explsion on the 10 of march in durban at the blazer coumpany for school kinds

The South African Air Force's Klippan Radar Station in the Western Transvaal comes under mortar attack
5 May - 3 South African Embassy staff are ordered to leave Britain within 7 days because of the attempted smuggling of a Blowpipe missile

4 bystanders are injured when a limpet explodes under police vehicle in Duduza
A limpet place under a vehicle parked outside a policeman's home in Tsakane explodes
A grenade is thrown at a police patrol in Tsakane
A limpet mine explodes in rubbish bin outside the home of policeman in Soweto
A bomb shatters the windows of KwaThema Police station's dining hall
A limpet mine explodes at the Police single quarters in Ratanda
A limpet mine explodes at the home of Boetie Abramjee, a Labour Party MP

5 July - PW Botha, State President of South Africa, and Nelson Mandela (in prison at the time) meet for the first time

A grenade is thrown into a Labour Party polling station in Bishop Lavis
The Brixton Flying Squad HQ is attacked with hand grenades and AK-47s
Lt-Col. Frank Zwane, a former liaison officer for the police and his two sons are injured in a grenade attack in Soweto
An explosion at the Athlone Police Station

FW de Klerk becomes the 9th State President of South Africa
A police patrol is ambushed by terrorist or freedom fighters in Katlehong
A mini-limpet explodes outside the Mamelodi Police station
Purple Rain Protest, rioters in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town are sprayed with a purple dye. The resulting graffiti, "The purple shall govern" graces the pages of newspapers world-wide.
100 000 people attend a peace march called by Cape Town city mayor, Gordon Oliver, in conjunction with religious leaders.

Bomb explodes outside the BP centre in Cape Town and at a Woodstock garage a few minutes later

The Hluhluwe and Umfolozi Game Reserves are joined through the Corridor Reserve as the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve
The government starts dismantling six nuclear fission devices that were built during the apartheid era

25 February – Willie Mtolo wins his second national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:13:13 in Port Elizabeth.

1 May - David Webster, an academic at the University of the Witwatersrand and an anti-apartheid activist, was shot dead outside his home in Eleanor Street, Troyeville, Johannesburg
12 September - Anton Lubowski, advocate and secretary-general of the South West Africa People's Organization is shot dead outside his home in Windhoek, South West Africa