Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

ut at the same time it is isdemhhg and dividing
sorne of the farces of the opposition. They have
opposed the State's attempts to create and coopt a
Blaclc middle c9ass; so now &investing companies are
trying to do the same thing. So the hde unions want
codtation on this before companies leave. We don't
know what the new parameters are going to be.
The notion that this selling to white management amounted
to a public relations trick-'They are not withdrawing. ney are
not disappearing. Their products go on being madew-was
widely accepted Further there was a f&g that to the extent
that they acted at all these corporations were responding to
econoglic realities at home or/and in South Africa, rather than in
support of black hitian.
The next mwt fmpently mentioned comment was that
black people had su€€ered as a result of the chinvestmenk A
senim executive with a private foundation explained:
There has not been much effect on the emnomy.
At the same time as the companies are being taken
over by South African private en@rprise, Black work
are not enjoying the same privileges as before. Workers
are also unhappy about not being informed in good
time of the WitMrawaL Now there is a ay: Why do
you leave us? PeopIe are scared of losing the privileges
they had under the Suttivan Code.
An Inkatha OW a h saw the results as negative He gave
as an example his own brother, a father of many children# who
had lost a job. 'This is why people are beroming hoboes." The
only person who attempted to present some kind of statistical
evidence on this topic was a trade unionist who supportd disinvestment.
He felt that the results had not been significant
'"Possibly 3000 workers have lost jobs as a result compared to 3
&on unemployed in total"
Ten comments claimed that black Swth Africans were
p l d by announcements of disinvestment. A woman student
in Cape Town, while acknowledging that the did not smm to
be much change, said that blacks were very pleased to see