U.S. Sanctions on South Africa: The Results Are In

Publication Date: June 1987

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): William Pascoe

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Africa

Type: Report

Coverage: South Africa

Abstract:

Western sanctions against Pretoria have done nothing to bring Pretoria closer to eradicating apartheid. The promising liberalizing trends throughout the key institutions of Afrikanerdom--the church, the intelligentsia, the Broederbond, the government--have been set back. The object of U.S. and Western policy should not be sanctions but an effort to convince the Afrikaners that they stand to gain more from abolishing apartheid and rejoining the community of nations than they do by going back into their defensive laager.