Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

emuse they thwght the Government was not as
strong as it is. We have l h t quickly.
As regards impact on the black population, a senior kvd
aanawsfated:
Black people aooept it. The Black man is hmgy
whether he is worling or not worldng. When he gets
sackes we are sorry, but his brothers and sisters wiU
help. Nobody is going to die. We will help.
Twenty of the respcmses included comments to the effect
that bhdc paopIe had sufferwt as a consequence of sanctions (13
said that it had caused unemployment; five, that it had worsened
warking umditim; and two, that black people were not pleas4
by its ekt~). The Thetewkwees that were mast can- of its
having a deletd~t~ effrrct on blacks were primarily people who
were opposed to it in the firat place. In the wonds of an WQtha
organizer:
It is having e&cb. But the effects it is having are
not the ones intended. It has hurt Blacks more than
Whites. Next door is the manpower building dealing
with unemplqmmt Pmple in large numbers are
Iining up outside Sanctions helped Whites to rally
round the Government-they felt htened and
becamemore~tive. Thiswasreaeaediethe
Won The Frogressive Fed& Party was washed
away and the Consenrative Party became the dicial
~~ The National Party won an outstanding
majmity- And Swth &oops are hitkg neigh-
boring mun- Black people are still detained in
large numbers. People in the forebnt [of Black
politirs] are thinking twice about this. People are nat
pleasect And the social pmgpms of these c o m e
are ended or reduced.
Fiftegn commmb dared to some negative ef£&s on whites
or/& the p emmai (& said that it had ikmtemd the
government k3 some way; five, that it had affected the econmy
negatively; three, that whites had suffered: and one that whites