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Special Report Transcript Episode 79, Section 4, Time 38:05

By 1986, after 12 years in opposition politics, he quit Parliament. // I decided that there’s no point staying there, that the military seemed to be dominating the country, it was a state of emergency, and started a thing called the Institute for the Democratic Alternative, IDASA. Was there for quite a long time and then into justice in transition, how do you cope with the past, how do you build for the future? And got very interested in the whole question of the Commission and now I’m in the Commission.

Notes: News report, Feb 1986

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A state of emergency was declared on 20 July 1985 in terms of Section 2(1) of the Public Safety Act of 1953. It affected 36 magisterial districts in the Cape, Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and was extended to eight other areas on 26 October 1985. It was lifted on 7 March 1986 and re-imposed ...
 
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