Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

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developing hm Pretoria and Washingion
He went on to explain that for a variety of reas~exnainly
that 8a~ctions were not producing dts-local issues had
-me more pressing and dmt, An Azap OW said that
2hadbastepintherightdirection,butthatlackofEoordtnatian
with Western go-ts would render it hdkctive. A
pm-d man in Duiban, while acknowledging that no
material impact was dkemible, nevertheks felt that it was seen
as a "positive signaln to pmgresdves in South A€rica It had also
introduced Sou& Africans to the amplexities of Ampolitics,
to the difkmces between the Reagan administration, the
Congress, and the people. He saw it as a vicSwy hr the Anti-Apartheid
Mwment in the teeth of opposibion from the President.
Two others who were positive about the passing of the Act
based their satisfaction on the defeat of ReapI rather than on
the &pikame for South Alrica.
Assessments of the impact on South Africa of the sandofls
may be divided into four main types: no impacl; a negative
impact on blacks; a negative impact on whim; and an inab'ity
to assea;- The most coplplon nzqmnse (mentiad 34 times) was
that it had no or wry little impact (Ten said no effect; four, very
little impael; hurI no eEFect on the South Afrirrrn govemnen~
eight no economic -, four, very little econoaic effect; thnee,
it would not bring the government down; and thee, the
govanmat had prepared in advance and therefore it could have
no impact) A professional lwel manager said that South Africa
had skkpiled shtegic supplies in advance* and abed further &at the Swtb fin economy had long been stntctured
in respnse to poMfid d idmlogical d d rather than to
market b, and therefore if wdd be able to adapt to the new
pxessrnresl A W e r said that South Afiio had done its
%onrework" and was d y ; and a community orphr
mmented:
The Swth African Government is very strong.
bfnmpbw Was Very high anFJJ It has ~ d e
verylitttediffismcetoourauffering. I t t t h e
Government on a very Iwu sale. PeopIe were p l d