Botha Case Study

During the years of 1985-89 the South African government started to feel large amounts of pressure not only internationally but internally as the cracks within apartheid started to grow. Botha started making decisions to negotiate with all the ANC leaders exiled and jailed as it was the only way the country could move on properly. Many factors contributed to Botha 's decision as they all had several contributions as well as setbacks in determining whether it was the primary reason why Botha chose to negotiate.

During the years, the townships started a revolt which led to deaths on a large scale as organizations from the opposition started to use violence means and methods. In 1985 there were many bus and school boycotts, attacks on black councilors

Other parties such as the conservative party started to win those votes and backing from the people. This shows that the people of South Africa actually started to see what apartheid was and how it was now affecting their lives and their work. During this time a new militant group called the AWB started to break up government meetings as they did not approve of Botha 's reform or his plan of negotiation to the ANC leaders. By 1986 they started to lose their votes in the general election as it fell from 57% to 52%. This shows that Botha was a little forced in his decision for negotiating with the ANC leaders because he needed some support from other sides. This shows that Botha needed the decision not because of the pressure from international but because he was losing not only the support from the civilians but the support from his own party as a leader. This was because later on in 1989 Botha 's total strategy and reform agenda broke down and became largely