The following lists events that happened during 1985 in South Africa. Incumbents State President: P.W. Botha. Chief Justice: Pieter Jacobus Rabie. Events January 31 – State President P.W. Botha offers a release proposal to imprisoned African National Congress deputy leader Nelson Mandela. 31 – Dr Gerrit Viljoen, Minister of Cooperation and Development, announces that the forced removal of Blacks will be suspended. Three guerrillas and a policeman are killed in a skirmish near Nongoma. February 9 – An explosion damages the Old Defence Force offices in Marshall Street, Johannesburg. 10 – Nelson Mandela rejects P.W. Botha's offer of conditional release. 28 – Denis Goldberg is released from custody of Apartheid government after spending 22 years in white prison. March 21 – An estimated 47 people are killed in the Langa massacre when police open fire on a crowd at the twenty-fifth commemoration of the Sharpeville Massacre demonstration marches in Langa, Port Elizabeth. 22 – Two guerrillas are killed in Bosbokrand. 27 – Over 200 people are arrested for marching through Cape Town to Pollsmoor Prison protesting for the release of Nelson Mandela, including two clerics who led the march, Beyers Naudé and Allan Boesak. A Limpet mine destroys a police vehicle in Mamelodi. Two guerrillas are killed and one captured in the Eastern Transvaal. A special branch policeman's home in Tembisa comes under grenade attack. April 15 – South Africa ends the ban on interracial marriages. 30 – The Rand Daily Mail, a leading anti-apartheid newspaper, ceases publication. May 2 – An explosion rocks the building housing the gold mining companies of Anglo American and Anglovaal in Johannesburg and causes R170,000 in structural damage. Both companies are engaged in mass dismissals of mine workers. 8 – The Disappearance of Pebco Three and subsequently murdered same year 9 – Two grenade attacks occur in Pretoria townships. 15 – Three explosions damage the Brakpan Police barracks. 15 – Insurgents attack the buildings of the Brakpan Commissioners court and offices of the Messenger of the court. 15 – The funeral of Andries Raditsela, an Umkhonto we Sizwe member who had died in detention, takes place. 28 or 30 – A Limpet mine causes structural damage to the Military Medical Centre in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. 31 – Insurgents attack the Southern Cross Fund offices and injure 14 people. June 14 – The South African Army raids houses and offices of Umkhonto we Sizwe during Operation