As South Africa marks 30 years of Democracy, SABC News has launched a new programme dedicated to marking this important milestone. Join Update@Noon every Tuesday, from today, as we zoom in on some of the people and events that laid the ground work for South Africa as we know it today. In the build up to the country's historic 1994 democratic elections, bloodshed, gunshots, looting and overall unrest were a common site in Bophuthatswana in March of that year. This was sparked by the announcement by Kgosi Lucas Mangope, the leader of the nominally independent South African Bantustan created under apartheid, that the territory would not participate in the general elections, which were to be held on April. Civil servants, including police and the military officers, students at the former Bophuthatswana University, as well as the general public, took to the streets, rendering the capital, Mmabatho ungovernable. Staff at the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation, would later join the strike, causing more panic for the authorities. SABC News reporter, Itumeleng Kgajane looks back at some of the events that took place then.