Special Report Transcript Episode 16, Section 2, Time 16:29

Minister of Defence, PW Botha became president in 1979 after BJ Vorster resigned. The South African Defence Force stepped into power with him. Botha initiated a period of reform which included the scrapping of many apartheid laws including the mixed marriages act, the population registration act and influx control. His creation of a tricameral Parliament which excluded black South Africans gave birth to the United Democratic Front in 1983. It was the most effective internal resistance ever. The townships soon became ungovernable.

Notes: PW Botha inaugurated; Botha in Parliament

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