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They banned tv to prevent people from finding out what was actually happening on the country.
The irony was that they failed to hide the truth from the public even though news reports were censored.
It was an admission that Apartheid was collapsing and preparing the white population for eventual peace talks with the ANC even though Mandela was still in prison.
Local newspapers were censored but not imported pop magazines from the US and Britain which gave us a glimpse into the freedoms people were enjoying overseas.
They couldn't keep tv banned forever because the world was changing and we could sense that the country was also changing.
Some Apartheid laws were gradually repeated over time as a test case for the future.