At 10 p.m. Taipei time on 27 November, President Nelson Mandela of the Republic of South Africa announced at a press conference in his official residence in Johannesburg that his country would terminate its diplomatic relations with the Republic of China on 31 December 1997, and would establish relations with the People's Republic of China on 1 January 1998.
南非總統曼德拉在台北時間十一月二十七日晚上十時，在約翰尼斯堡官邸舉行記者會宣佈，與我國的邦交將在一九九七年十二月三十一日終止，並於一九九八年元月一日與「中華人民共和國」建交。