Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

and to feel that it has brought very few benefits to black South
Ahicam. Those among the interviewees who identify America
as imperialkt therefore go en to make the case that America will
not willingly undermine a capitdist system from which it is
profiting.
Anger toward the US has been growing for same h e now,
possibly for a demde, and mom parli&1y since the Reap * *
abwmstmtion has hen in office- The reasons for this change in
attitude emerge hm the interviews. Suspicion is themfore high
Uberior motives for any apparently positive move are therefore
always sought (It remains to be sen whether the Bush administration's
actions will change these attitudes.)
Finally, the history of events ever the last two years inside
South Africa will have affeded the response. The South Ahhm
government has &kclively and cruelly delayed the progress of
the black struggle. There has been a great deal of suffering. This
may be only a temporary setback. But h the meantime blade
look around and ;see i n a d oppression and a deimimating
political situation, and they must come to the conclusion that,
whatever foreign pwers are doing it is having no positive
impact.
Notes
. La- fkhImmr, BM Wwker Attihi&. PoIihl Opfihs#
GtpWimn,&I~inhthAF.iap -CenberfwApplied
social Sclenoes# Unidty of Natal, 19841, -1.
2. hiark Orkin, Disirmcsfmenf, fhe Shggk and tk Future. Wht Bhk
solrth Afrinmrs Rerrlly Think uohannes- Ravan Rest 1985),12-13.
3. See Merle Liptan, Sanctions and Soufh Am. The Dynmnics of
Lsolation (Landon, The Emnomic Intelligence Unit, Special Report
No. 1119,1%!3), 119.