The 1990 Venda coup d'état was a bloodless military coup in Venda, an unrecognised state and a nominally independent South African homeland for the Venda people, which took place on 5 April 1990.

The coup was led by the then 48-year-old Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana, the Chief of Staff of the Venda Defence Force, against the government of President Frank Ravele (NPV).

[1] Ramushwana's military government stayed in power until January 1994,[2][3] several months before the reunification of Venda with South Africa after the first post-apartheid general election.

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