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Special Report Transcript Episode 99, Section 1, Time 11:52

Nelson in prison was more mythical than real; Winnie was the visible living symbol of black resistance, especially when in 1986 the apartheid government declared a state of emergency. As South Africa edged towards civil war she remained defiant. // ‘This is now the right time to take your country. We shall use the same language the Boers are using against us; they know only one language, the language of the caspirs. We have no arms, we have stones, we have boxes of matches …’

Notes: Police violence; Winnie addressing crowd

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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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