Saturday Night - South African Disco Pop Hits - 1981 to 1987The 1980s were an epoch of upheaval and rapid change in South Africa. The decade began with the countrys apartheid government fighting to maintain its institutionalized racial segregation in the face of global protests and demands for the release of human rights activist Nelson Mandela, who had been jailed since the early 1960s. By 1990, Mandela was free, and apartheid was on the way to being dismantled. On the music front, things were changing too;