The apartheid government ran a secret biological and chemical weapons program called Project Coast that dumped Quaaludes onto street gangs as a deliberate pacification strategy during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when mass democratic movement was gaining momentum. The pills themselves carried symbols like the Star of David and swastikas, making them immediately identifiable on the street. This wasn't accident or side effect. It was calculated state policy to chemically suppress resistance during the regime's death throes.