Word: antiapartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instead to its own long-scheduled list of minor reforms. South Africa's economy, meanwhile, though limping in spots, has not endured any major setbacks as the result of either U.S. sanctions or similar punitive measures that have been imposed by 27 other countries. Says Helen Suzman, a staunchly antiapartheid member of South Africa's Parliament, of the overall results of sanctions: "I don't see any positive effects on the pace of change...
...amendment that would give the country's strictly segregated communities the local option of admitting residents of more than one race, and a plan to form a multiracial National Council to consult on the outline of a new constitution. Both proposals have been rejected as tokenism by black antiapartheid groups...
...gross national product of $65 billion, in contrast to Swaziland's $490 million, South Africa is the smaller country's principal trading partner and its sole supplier of oil, gasoline, electricity and most consumer goods. In exchange for South African economic cooperation, Swaziland has closely policed the activities of antiapartheid African National Congress militants within its borders. A few weeks ago Mswati met at the royal residence with South Africa's Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, who had been a close friend of the King's father, to discuss a continuation of those ties...
...leopard never changes its spots." In the future, he warned, the government will maintain tighter control over the issuance and renewal of passports and will set up a commission to look into the activities and funding of organizations like the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa, the antiapartheid group that planned the trip to Dakar...
Alas, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, who formulated a set of antiapartheid guidelines that would justify U.S. companies' remaining in South Africa, has submitted to the pressures of the Randall Robinsons, Jesse Jacksons and Andrew Youngs of this world. As a dedicated and active supporter of the principles Sullivan set up, I personally feel cheated and let down by his announcement ((WORLD, June 15)) that all U.S. firms should leave South Africa...