Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

IMFLEMENTATION OF THE A m-
APARTHEID ACT OF 1986'
Gay McDougall
Background
On October 2,1986, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Ad
of 1986 Fthe A&), 22 US.C. a 5001-5116 (Supp. IV 19861,
became law?
The purpose of the Act, as set forth in the statute, is:
[Tlo set forth a comprehensive and complete b e -
work to guide the efforts of the United States in
helping to bring an end to apartheid in South Africa
and lead to tothe establishment of a nonracial, democratic
form of government.
*This chapter v~as
excerpted from a longer report issued by the
Swthern Mrka Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law in June 1988, to which a number of people mnhibukd.