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...Congress has finally rammed through Ronald Reagan's roadblocks and implemented sanctions against South Africa. But it is too little, too late. Congress has come clean just in time to take a bloodbath. "It will harm us, but it will not kill us," said South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha of the impending U.S. sanctions...
...Botha is right. Sanctions will not kill South Africa like its rubber bullet killed that boy. "Sanctions may hurt," said Rep. William Gray (D-Pa.), "But apartheid has killed over 130 Blacks every month since January and jailed without trial thousands and many have just simply disappeared...
Reagan would have America be a super-power voyeur, sitting and watching as Botha and his apartheid regime rape the country. Congress must leave Botha to his peep-show and begin taking the real steps in freeing South Africa's Blacks--military aid. "Apartheid will be dismantled and its victims will remember who helped to destroy this evil system," said Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, "and President Reagan will be judged harshly by history...
...Pretoria the government had been getting ready for bad news from Washington for more than a week. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha repeated the conventional argument that if the congressional bill survives the Reagan veto, "it will have a damaging effect on the jobs of many people, black and white. It will harm us, but it will not kill...
...reaction in South Africa to last week's actions was one of general relief. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha issued a perfunctory statement deploring all sanctions, and State President P.W. Botha declared in a speech in Johannesburg that those who propose sanctions, "with their stupid march of folly against my country, are playing into the hands of revolutionary forces and power-drunk cliques." But the Johannesburg stock exchange index hit a new high, as did the gold stocks index, and coal stocks jumped 10% to 20% following the news from Brussels. Many South Africans seemed ready to agree with...