The Church Street bombing strikes air-force headquarters

The trade-union organizer died after prolonged Security Branch interrogation. His death triggered protests and a major labour funeral.

Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Andrew Mlangeni were moved from Robben Island, partly as the state began considering political contacts.

A parcel bomb sent by apartheid security agents killed the scholar and activist at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo.

The attack on houses in Lesotho killed ANC members and Basotho civilians, provoking international condemnation of apartheid's cross-border warfare.

Explosives damaged the unfinished plant near Cape Town shortly before fuel was to be loaded, delaying the project without causing deaths.

Delegates from hundreds of civic, youth, religious, women's and labour organizations formed a national front against the tricameral constitution and apartheid.

The referendum created separate parliamentary chambers for white, Coloured and Indian representatives while excluding the African majority.

Low participation in elections for the House of Representatives reflected mass rejection of a constitution designed to divide oppressed communities.

The boycott of the House of Delegates election weakened the legitimacy of the apartheid government's constitutional reform.

Township residents protested rent increases and illegitimate Black local authorities. Police violence helped turn the revolt into a national period of insurrection.