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Flashcards by Reuben Veysey-Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Reuben Veysey-Smith
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Problems of council | Seen as very corrupt, sought to increase rent massively; seen as sellouts |
| Setting up of UDF | Launched at Mitchell's plain in Cape Town, about 600 delegates were among 13,00 people; largest antiapartheid since 1950's Initial aim to remove tricameral government, soon had over 1.5m supporters |
| UDF mobilisation | Massive school boycotts 1984-5 with massive help from women, co-ordinated Transvaal stay-at-home November 5-6, 1984; 800,000 participated |
| ANC in exile | Called out to make the country un-governable |
| MK | MK stepped up their attacks, 137 in 1985, one bomb explosion in front of the SADF headquarters killed 19 and injured 200 |
| Context of Johannesburg | Started by Micheal Diradeng shot by a security guard, and a night vigil; including arson attacks |
| Events of Johannesburg | 6,000 youth crowd were tear gassed, a rally of 40,000 people were organised at the stadium, police killed 27 was a very long protest |
| Winnie Mandela | Became very radicalised during this period quoted saying 'with our boxes of matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country |
| Government response to Alexandria | Army sealed off the township, in May 1986 over 1,500 troops moved there doing house to house searches, 12 June 2nd state of emergency 25,000 were detained massively |
| State suppression | Police force increased from 49-93,6 between 81-9, nearly 144,000 by 1994 |
| Conflict in homelands | Buthelezi head of Inkatha freedom party, 4,000 were killed in 3 years |
| Botha and reform | BY 1986 many parts of apartheid had softened and pass laws were abandoned, he stated reform would go no further with the current state of the country; tens of thousands were arrested |
| Internation pressure | After the collapse of the Soviet block international pressure intensified, US refused to renew loans, the free Mandela campaign also became huge |
| Mandela | Botha offered to free him in return to no violence, Mandela refused, held weekly meeting 47 times with minsters; was seen as to important and moved to |
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