Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expressed in these terms, the boycott may achieve its goals by inducing a realignment within the white electorate; a boycott would weaken the fierce proponents of apartheid, hearten the liberal opposition, and convince the apolitical that the whites in South Africa will lose more by remaining attached to apartheid than by gradually sharing power...
...United States last year purchased over ten per cent of South Africa's total exports valued at $2.2 billion. If Britain joined din the boycott, South Africa would be denied roughly one-third of its export markets. In an economy dependent upon exports for 25 per cent of its national income, such losses bring severe dislocation...
...When the boycott is imposed there must be a clear statement of its purposes and the conditions under which it will be lifted. The reversal of apartheid must include repealing all repressive police legislation. South Africa must abolish the pass laws and the measures dependent on them which restrict the movement, residence, employment, and education of nonwhites. It must allow the functioning of the political movements of nonwhites and must be committed to the gradual extension of political rights to all citizens on the basis of merit not race...
...possible, of course, that a boycott may solidify white support for apartheid; yet, the prognosis for South Africa without outside intervention is clear. Although harrassed, South Africa's liberals today still have talented spokesmen, wealth, and newspapers. In a few years, as government intimidation takes its toll, these assets will be gone. The non-whites, denied opportunities for gradual progress, will become increasingly attracted to revolution...
...concept to India and Pakistan. Partition, though, is far less likely than a major conflict between the races in which the independent African states will join the fight against the whites. Intervention in this malestrom would present far more perils to the United States than intervening through a boycott does...