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June 1984: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert meets Mbeki, Slabbert's Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa (IDASA); ANC sat down to re-examine its strategy at the Kabwe Conference, June 1985, the year of SA security force's cross border raid into Botswana killing 12, movement supported expansion of armed struggle; planning talks with Van der Merwe, October 84 and Piet Muller, December 84, April 85 Beeld editor Hugh Murray prepared delegation of business men led by Gavin Relly to meet; late 80s early 90s transformation of the ANC into an advocate of liberal democracy; 1985 PW Botha launched state of emergency, rand plummeted, sanctions era began in earnest; May 1986 the Ford Foundation Conference about education; Mbeki meeting De Lange (chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond); 8 July 1984 ANC met 61 compatriots, IDASA delegates in Senegal, 2 months before MK car bomb explosion in Johannesburg, Mbeki: no need to put guns down before negotiations start; Slabbert and Mbeki field trips to Burkina Faso, Ghana, criticised by radical black nationalists; Mbeki's attempts to unify SA's segregated rugby unions, met with L Luyt, Feb 1988, deracialisation only happened in 1991; Mbeki described as womaniser by Max du Preez; November 1989 IDASA meeting hosted by Mitterand's wife; Slabbert and Mbeki relationship.
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