The apartheid government imposed a nationwide state of emergency, extending detention, censorship, and police powers as popular resistance intensified. Mandela was imprisoned and could not participate publicly, but the emergency shaped the conditions facing the movements campaigning for his release. Community organisations, trade unions, students, and churches faced new restrictions while continuing to organise.
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