What did the lifting of the anc ban in february 1990 mean for the white regime? (open 1990-1999 link.) ?

The lifting of the ANC ban to the apartheid regime implied that the end of the segregation era was over. the president announced that the party which had been banned for thirty years, along side others had been lifted. He also announced the release of a dozen freedom fighters and the comuting or termination of death sentences.