The increasing popular resistance and violent township protests amid the 1980s forced the South African government to declare a State of Emergency. On 20 July 1985, President P.W. Botha announced that violence in the country showed that "ordinary law and order was inadequate”.
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South African History Archives, 'A State of Emergency', [Online], Available at: www.saha.org.za, [Accessed: 23 July 2013]