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1979 Tutu calls for economic sanctions against the South African government on Danish television.
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1984 Blacks begin killing other Blacks for suspected collaboration with their white oppressors. December - Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
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1985 February 3 - Tutu is enthroned as Bishop of Johannesburg.
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Tutu is elected Archbishop of Cape Town, head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. June - P.W. Botha, president under the new constitution, declares a state of emergency to deal with black unrest.
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Botha bans all remaining anti-apartheid groups to appease neo-Nazi groups. Police are given unlimited powers of arrest. August - The Trade Union Building in Johannesburg, headquarters of Tutu and anti-apartheid groups, is destroyed by a bomb.
