law and order subcouncil recommends that Section 29 of the Internal Security Act and Section 206 of the Criminal Procedure Act be repealed immediately. 8 – The closing date for submission of designs for South Africa's new national flag. 8 – The Transitional Executive Council threatens strong action against the Bophuthatswana government. 9 – The Nokia 2110 mobile phone is launched in South Africa at a price of R4,199. 9 – Three people are killed and about forty are injured when police officers open fire on demonstrators in Mmabatho, Bophuthatswana. 9 – Bophuthatswana President Lucas Mangope rejects the Independent Electoral Commission chairman Judge Johann Kriegler's plea for free political activity in the homeland. 9 – The staff of the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation is fired and the two television stations and three radio stations are closed down. 9 – The Inkatha Freedom Party and Freedom Front fail to submit their candidates' lists to the Independent Electoral Commission's offices in Johannesburg by the 16:30 deadline. 10 – President Lucas Mangope flees from Mmabatho to Sun City. 10 – The Inkatha Freedom Party's central committee meets in Ulundi and decide against participation in the April election. 11 – Three wounded Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) members are murdered by a Bophuthatswana Defence Force soldier. 11 – South African Defence Force troops move into Bophuthatswana to protect the South African embassy. 11 – The Freedom Front submits their list of candidates, but the Inkatha Freedom Party fails to meet the Independent Electoral Commission's new cut-off. 12 – Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as Bophuthatswana's new administrator. 15 – Nelson Mandela and Professor Itumeleng Mosala, president of the Azanian People's Organisation, address separate rallies in Mmabatho. 15 – South Africa's new national flag, designed by State Heraldist Fred Brownell, is unveiled. 16 – State President FW de Klerk announces that the government had made a number of contingency plans to prevent the right-wing from attempting to take over authority over towns as part of their resistance against the new constitution. 16 – Ciskei's government agrees to pay pension benefits to public servants who threatened "Bophuthatswana-style action" if their demands were not met. 18 – Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini suggests that the Zululand region is on the point of a unilateral declaration of independence. 21 – The Inkatha Freedom Party rejects an initiative by President De Klerk to bring it into the election and starts planning