General South African History Timeline: 1980s
… of, Inkatha, AZAPO, the Labour Party, the Natal Indian Congress and the South African Council of Churches (SACC). … in an eighty-two per cent poll. 1980 4 September, At a congress in Bloemfontein, the Prime Minister says that the … 1980 10 December, A new Coloured political movement, the Congress of the People (COPE) is launched in Cape Towns …