#OnThisDay in 1985, a state of emergency was declared in South Africa in response to escalating unrest and resistance to apartheid. The state of emergency allowed P.W. Botha to rule by decree and gave extensive powers to the police and security forces. This was done in an attempt to clamp down on anti-apartheid activities, contain social unrest, and curb on-the-ground events from from being covered by local and international news channels. Find out about the events that took place in the 1980s i
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#OnThisDay in 1985, a state of emergency was declared in South Africa in response to escalating unrest and resistance to apartheid. The state of emergency allowed P.W. Botha to rule by decree and gave extensive powers to the police and security forces. This was done in an attempt to clamp down on anti-apartheid activities, contain social unrest, and curb on-the-ground events from from being covered by local and international news channels. Find out about the events that took place in the 1980s i
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On 31 January 1985 State President P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela, leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC), conditional release from the prison sentence he had been serving since the conclusion of the Rivonia Trial in 1964. The condition of his release is that he renounces violence, and violent protest, as a means to bring about change in South Africa. Mandela communicates his refusal of the offer through his daughter, Zindzi Mandela, who reads his statement to this effect at a r
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