![]() ![]() The South African army had already retreated from Angola, and the Nationalist Party had finally agreed to Namibian independence. We had student uprisings, we had the international community crying out for release, there were various sanctions against the country."īy the end of the 1980s, de Klerk was facing determined opposition within South Africa and sanctions were starting to bite. "You could compare South Africa at the time to living in a pressure cooker. ![]() "He had no choice and he did what he had to do and it was obviously long overdue," said one Cape Town resident.
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