Internal Pressures

Violent resistance
1. Township violence
  1. Gov declared State of Emergency
    1. 1985-6
2. Sabotage attacks on gov
  1. Bomb explosion outside SA Air force hq
    1. Church Str, Pretoria
    2. 1983
3. Umkhonto we Sizwe
  1. (MK)
  2. Target Koegberg nuclear power station
United Democratic Front
1. 1983
2. (UDF)
3. Umbrella organisation
  1. Churches, civics, political groups
4. Made townships ungovernable
5. Successful boycott of Tricameral Parliament
6. Adopted Freedom Charter
  1. Non-racialism
Economic decline
1. Politicized trade unions
  1. Congress of South African Trade Unions
    1. 1985
    2. (COSATU)
    3. Umbrella for different trade unions
    4. 50 000 workers
  2. Emphasized power of the worker
    1. 'Rolling mass action'
      1. Strikes & boycotts
Mass Democratic Movement
1. 1988
2. (MDM)
3. Formed after gov banned UDF & COSATU
End Conscription Campaign
1. (ECC)
2. Grew in 1980s
3. Young white men refusing military service for political reasons
4. Conscription supported Apartheid
  1. Fight on Angolan/Namibian border/townships
5. Gov banned in 1988
Gov's reaction:
1. State of Emergency
  1. Crush resistance
  2. Detained/tortured leaders
  3. Media controlled
  4. Groups banned/restricted
2. Supported 'Third Force'
  1. Inkatha Freedom Party
    1. KZN
3. 'Black on black violence' propagana

Resource summary

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