De Klerk's Reforms

• In 1987, the SA government begun talks with the ANC, demanding them to renounce their violence if talks were to be pursued. Mandela refused saying that the violence was caused by the government's policies.
• In 1989, there was a general election, the results was the worst ever for the NP, although it still clung onto power.
• De Klerk was enforced into some kind of change- either move to the right-wing and clamp down even more on the unrest, or to try to achieve some kind of compromise with the ANC. If he choose the former, he would face the opposition of almost the entire world, destroying the SA economy in the process, but the latter would give the possibility of black majority rule and increased conservative opposition.