Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

in 19815 to UA%9,127,OQO in 1984 and P1,383,134,(400 approximately
UA1,257,394,000) in 1985," However, the bulk of this
suhkmtial increase was due to dramatic increases in the export
of diamonds. Just over W% of the increase in exports between
1981 and 1984 was due to increased diamond sales, T'he were
significant ha-eases in sales of wood, w d articles, and
basketry, ht much of that increase WA1.7 million) would be in
the form of sals of baskets. Of somewhat more inkrest were
in- in the exportation of textiles and textile articles (up by
a factor of 275 from UA16.9 million to UA46.6 million), machinery
and appliances (up by a factor of 3.34 hm UA2.6 million to
UA8.9 million), vehicles (up by a factor of 215 hom UA6 million
to UA12% million), and photographic, musical, and surgical
epment (up by a factor of 13.6 from UA98,231 in 1981 to
UA134 million in 1984).
The direction of export trade offers some additional data7
which may help explain the gross figures on export.. The value
of exports to the eommon customs area (mainly South Africa)
i n d from P55 million in 1981 to P77.5 million in 1985. The
increase in the value of this trade was probably explained by the
increase in the number of joint Botswana-South Africa ventures
in light manufacturing, with the bulk of the raw materials
coming from South Africa for final stage procesing or packaging,
the commodity then in turn being sold in the South African
market. Exports to "other Afrid"' increased from a value P35
million in 1981 to about P54 million in 1984, most of which I
think would have been re-exports of South African goods to
Zimbabwe (as Gaborone becnme the shopping district for many
Zimbabweans) and also the export of textile produck to Zimbabwe
with the relocation of several textile manufaelmem from
Zimbabwe to northeastem Botswana. These features had as
much to do with the economic situation in Zimbabwe as with
sanctions busting but did result in an indirect trade between
South Africa and Zimbabwe via Botswara Zimbabwe itself
became c o m d about this and challenged the " Id content"
of textiles king exported from Botswana. After a series of
acrimonious exchanges on the subject, the countries reached a
modus vivgndi which slowed down the growth of exports of
textiles horn Botswana to Zimbabwe based on South African