The U.S. and Racial Reform in South Africa

Publication Date: October 1982

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

Author(s): Ian Butterfield

Research Area: Government; Social conditions

Keywords: Africa

Type: Report

Coverage: South Africa

Abstract:

To be sure, racial reform in South Africa is fundamentally a domestic question, to be resolved by South Africans themselves. Overt foreign pressure for reform typically has had the effect of strengthening South Africa's anti-reform sentiments. On the other hand, the U.S. cannot ignore the situation.