Abbreviations and Acronyms- AHI
- Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut
- ANC
- African National Congress
- Assocom
- Association of Chambers of Commerce
- AVU
- Afrikaner Volksunie, a splinter faction of the Conservative Party
- AWB
- Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement)
- Azapo
- Azanian People’s Organisation
- BCM
- Black Consciousness Movement
- BOSS
- Bureau of State Security, predecessor of NIS
- CBM
- Consultative Business Movement
- CCB
- Civil Cooperation Bureau, an undercover agency of the SADF
- Codesa
- Convention for a Democratic South Africa, a negotiating forum of nineteen parties established in 1991
- Contralesa
- Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
- Cosatu
- Congress of South African Trade Unions
- CP
- Conservative Party
- DET
- Department of Education and Training
- DMI
- Department of Military Intelligence
- DP
- Democratic Party
- EPG
- Eminent Persons’ Group
- FCI
- Federated Chamber of Industries
- FLS
- Frontline States, the eleven states of Southern Africa that are members of SADC
- Fosatu
- Federation of South African Trade Unions, predecessor of Cosatu
- HNP
- Herstigte Nasionale Party, an extreme right-wing splinter party led by Jaap Marais
- Idasa
- Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa
- IDT
- Independent Development Trust
- IFP
- Inkatha Freedom Party
- JSE
- Johannesburg Stock Exchange
- KZP
- KwaZulu Police
- LRA
- Labour Relations Act
- MDM
- Mass Democratic Movement
- MK
- Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC
- MNR
- Mozambique National Resistance, also known as Renamo
- MPLA
- Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, led by José Eduardo dos Santos
- Nactu
- National Council of Trade Unions
- Nafcoc
- National African Federated Chambers of Commerce
- Nats
- Members of the National Party
- NECC
- National Education Crisis Committee
- NIS
- National Intelligence Service
- NMC
- National Manpower Commission
- NP
- National Party
- NSMS
- National Security Management System
- NUM
- National Union of Mine Workers
- Numsa
- National Union of Metal Workers
- OAU
- Organization of African Unity
- OFS
- Orange Free State
- PAC
- Pan Africanist Congress
- PFP
- Progressive Federal Party, predecessor of the Democratic Party
- PWV
- Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vaal Triangle
- Renamo
- Resistência Nacional Mocambicano, a South Africa-supported rebel movement against the ruling Frelimo party; also known as MNR
- SABC
- South African Broadcasting Corporation
- Sabta
- South African Black Taxi Association
- Saccola
- South African Consultative Committee on Labour Affairs
- Sacob
- South African Chamber of Business
- SACP
- South African Communist Party
- SADCC
- Southern African Development Coordination Conference; renamed SADC (Southern African Development Community) in 1992 under terms of the Windhoek Treaty
- SADF
- South African Defence Force
- SAIRR
- South African Institute of Race Relations
- Samcor
- South African Motor Corporation
- SANCO
- South African National Civic Organisation
- SAP
- South African Police
- SBDC
- Small Business Development Corporation
- SSC
- State Security Council
- Swapo
- South West African People’s Organisation, the ruling nationalist movement in Namibia
- TBCV
- Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, and Venda, the nominally independent homelands
- UDF
- United Democratic Front
- UF
- Urban Foundation
- Unita
- Uniâo Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, the U.S.- and South Africa-supported movement led by Jonas Savimbi
- Uwusa
- United Workers’ Union of South Africa
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