Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

had suffered psychoIogically). "The Governmmt did panic," said
one middle aged woman. A graduate student aged
Government felt threatened I1 how the conse-
guencer; of wnctions, and the power of sanctions in
arousing militancy and revolutionary instinets on the
part of the exploited and unemployed, and that it
breeds anger.
It has had an effect on the economy. It has achdy
stalled quite a few things. There is a lot of unc~r)r
about the cumtinuation of American companies and on
projected investment.
A community activist in Cape T m
I am very happy the bill passed. It has had
effects. Thousands of people have lost pb, not only
Blacks, but also Whites, and certain White firms have
gone bankrupt
A worker supemisor in a private o ~tion:
I have to mix sanctions and disinvestment. People
are p I 4 with both In the short tam it will harm
Blacks but in the long term it will bring hieration
White people will also suffer because firms will dose
down. I €Il~myjobIdbepl~~usethe
White man will also be in trouble; because I will
become a criminal and deal wi& the White man
directly. Whenever he is at work he will have to
employ a guard at home mil so will have to pay for it.
He will realize that he is forced to do all this because
of Government policy-
By contrast, four people made the point that the major
impact of sanctions on whits was to mobilize and urufy them.
Yt mobilized [them] in order ta overcome it It sent Whites back
into the laager and caused more hatred."
It was dear from most of the comments that concrete and
conclusive evidence on the effects of sanctions was in short