An Investment Strategy to Undermine Apartheid


 

Publication Date: April 1985

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

Author(s): Stuart M. Butler

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Africa

Type: Report

Coverage: South Africa

Abstract:

Reagan's constructive engagement is a sensible diplomatic strategy aimed at eroding apartheid. This should be bolstered through a strategy of investment leverage. By recognizing that strong economic growth, not disinvestment, will undermine apartheid and strengthen non-Afrikaner economic power while weakening Afrikaner political power, the U.S. would encourage gradual, but peaceful and irreversible, change.