1993 in South Africa

See also: 1992 in South Africa, other events of 1993, 1994 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

Events

March

• 24 March – The President FW de Klerk informs Parliament that South Africa constructed six nuclear fission devices. He adds that these had been dismantled by the end of 1989

May

• 4 May – Nordic development ministers, at their annual meeting in Sweden, decide to continue supporting to the African National Congress
• 5 May – Nelson Mandela addresses a joint sitting of two houses of the British Parliament
  • Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) members kill four police officers at Dobsonville, Soweto

July

• 26 July – Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) members open fire on a congregation in St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing eleven people and injuring fifty others.

November

• 18 November – 21 political parties approved a new constitution for the nation

Unknown date

• President FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Trade sanctions which were imposed in 1986 are lifted

Births

Deaths

• 20 March – Gerard Sekoto, artist, who went into exile in 1947, dies in Paris, France at the age of 80
• 24 April – Oliver Tambo dies from a stroke