In February 1982 there was a combined protests, about the number of deaths of those detained in police custody and the death of Neil Agget, workers from three of the apartheid states principal seaports, have staged a 30 minuet strike. Thus the black stevedores, employed at Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East London, stopped work. At the nations largest port Durban the General Workers Union spokesman D Lewis noted that the stoppage was little supported.
Late January to early February there was a campaign of bombings that spread throughout the area of apartheid. Some of the government buildings were damaged, a railway bridge and the supreme court building in Pietermaritzburg.
