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Title: | South Africa: The Case for Sanctions |
Author: | Wolpe, Howard |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | Issue |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Winter |
Pages: | 17-21 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa United States |
Subjects: | foreign policy economic sanctions Economics and Trade international relations Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1166873 |
Abstract: | American business opposition to sanctions against South Africa has a variety of motivations. For some it is a matter simply of dollars and cents. But there are other corporate leaders whose opposition to sanctions is motivated not by profit consideration but by their genuine conviction that their presence in South Africa represents a constructive force for change. The plain truth, however, is that American business investment in South Africa, at the same time that it conveys significant benefits to black employees, provides far greater rewards to the privileged white minority, and reinforces the Afrikaner regime's fantasy that their monopoly of power can be sustained indefinitely without serious cost. America's historic resistance to the application of sanctions against South Africa has led many to conclude that the United States is willing to accommodate itself to apartheid, and has a racial double standard in its foreign policy. Moreover, the USA fails to recognize the extent to which the conflict and instability generated by apartheid threatens American interests. The author emphasizes that American action, even if taken alone, can have major impact on South Africa. He argues that it is time that America truly commits itself to the struggle against apartheid. |