22 August 1984
On 22 August 1984 the United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups, organised highly successful boycotts of the Coloured and Indian elections to parliament in 1984. The UDF was against the exclusion of African people from the Tricameral parliament and saw this as a serious form of repression by the government. In early 1984, the UDF claimed a membership of more than 600 organizations and 3 million individuals and in that years mass action had rendered SA ungovernable. This led to a state of emergency being declared by PW Botha in 1985. Source: http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/history/919551.htm http://disa.nu.ac.za/articledisplaypage.asp?articletitle=Tricameral+parliament&filename=ApSep88 http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/apartheid-and-resistance/1980s.htm