23 March - Approximately 6,000 Inkatha Freedom Party supporters armed with fighting sticks, spears, clubs and battle axes rally in the Tugela Ferry area of Kwazulu Natal in defiance of a national ban on traditional weapons
May
2 May - South Africa and China exchange letters granting each other most-favoured-nation status
Mimi Coertse receives the highest accolade an artist can receive from the Austrian Government, the Oesterreichishe Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst
General Magnus Malan, former defence minister, and 19 other co-accused is acquitted on all charges relating to the massacre of 13 people in KwaMakhuta township south of Durban in 1987