Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tutu's suggestion that Harvard reinvest in South Africa after three months if the government does follow through on its promises, Bok said, "we're certainly not going to reinvest unless much more decisive steps are taken in terms of negotiated settlements in dismantling apartheid...
...domination" and "a new era" in South Africa, antiapartheid campaigners in the U.S. and Europe have begun to claim success for the economic sanctions they imposed during the 1980s. Such credit takers should beware of premature celebration; victory is not at hand, and foreign pressure on the land of apartheid has not had quite the effect that was predicted...
...rate by about 30%, to the current 2.2%. But such statistics by themselves do not add up to success. There was never any doubt that punitive measures could damage the South African economy. The real question was whether hurting the economy could force the government to change its fundamental apartheid policies...
...answer is no, or at least not yet. Pretoria's calls for change are not a recent concession to foreign pressure. As early as 1979, long before economic sanctions were considered, President P.W. Botha told his Afrikaner volk to "adapt or die." In 1986 he described apartheid as "outdated and unacceptable." It was only later that year, to push for faster change, that the U.S. enacted its comprehensive sanctions bill. Those measures hit South Africa where it hurts: in the economy, and in the keen sense among whites that they are pariahs in the world's eyes and will remain...
Well then, comes the natural response, more and tougher sanctions are needed. That too is open to question. A major slowdown in South Africa could halt the growth of the skilled black work force and the development of black economic power, which have already caused irreversible changes in the apartheid system -- legalization of black unions, abolition of the internal pass laws, legalization of some nonracial neighborhoods. These developments, more than sanctions, have helped change white thinking. And if broad new sanctions were to cut deeply into the South African economy, the government's probable response would be to abandon reform...