Armed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… of violence and unrest continued to occur throughout 1987-1989, killing thousands of people and destroying property. … but was postponed when Botha had a stroke in January 1989. Two months later Mandela’s memorandum was delivered to … secretly with the ANC in 1985, but it was only on 5 July 1989 that Mandela eventually met the president at Tuynhuis. …