1999
- Received the Deutscher Medienpreis, Baden-Baden, Germany, 28 January
- Awarded the Oneness-Peace Earth-Summit-Transcendence-Fragrance Award, Pretoria, 9 March
- Received the Golden Medal of the City of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10 March
- Received honorary doctorate from Leiden University, Netherlands, 12 March
- Awarded the Freedom of the City of Durban, Durban, 16 April
- Received Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 30 April
- Received Ukraine's Highest Decoration, the First Class of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, Cape Town, 5 May
- Received Jesse Owens Global Award, Johannesburg, 21 September
- Received insignia of Honour from the African Renaissance Institute, Johannesburg, 11 October
- Received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Botswana, Gaborone, 14 October
- Received the Baker Institute Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service at Rice University, Houston, 26 October
- Awarded the Freedom of the City of Lydenburg, Lydenburg, 3 November
- Appointed Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, Canberra, 9 June; presented with the insignia by Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Pretoria on 15 November.
- Was among 18 included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th Century, from a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999.
- Awarded honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden, 3 December
- Presented with Temple of Understanding Annual Award to Religious and Political Leaders for Outstanding Service to Humanity, Cape Town, 5 December
- Presented with the Gandhi-King Award by the World Movement for Nonviolence at the World Parliament of Religions, Cape Town, 5 December
- Listed as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine
- Accepted the Atatürk International Peace Prize from Turkey, after refusing the award in 1992.
- Created Knight of the Dutch/Luxembourgian Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, Netherlands, 10 March
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