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From 1970 to 1985, South Africa vacillated between reform & reaffirmation of the repressive regime known as apartheid. Did these reforms slow the pace of protest, or did they facilitate protest, by intensifying discontent? Using event-history data on anti-apartheid protest we suggest that passage of reforms will increase the pace of protest while state repression will dampen it. We further hypothesize that the nature & scope of each reform would differentially affect protest by each of three official racial populations: Black Africans, Coloureds, & Asian Indians. As expected, reforms that integrated housing & jobs & reforms that legitimated the rights of black labor unions propelled protest by Black Africans against apartheid, but so did reforms that excluded Black Africans from citizenship. In contrast, relatively few reforms affected the rate of protest by Asian Indians & Coloured population groups. Finally, we found that repression decreased rates of protest significantly for all three groups. 2 Tables, 1 Figure, 2 Appendixes, 92 References. Adapted from the source document.