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Date: 22 January, 1992

Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and President F.W. de Klerk were awarded the Unesco Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for 1991. They received the prize on 3 February in Paris, France.

Sources:

Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)

http://www.gcis.gov.za/gcis/gcis_profile.jsp?id=1040

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/awards/index.html