Congress S. Africa sanctions
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-12-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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RONALD Reagan will scarcely be pleased that his chosen allies in the apartheid regime of South Africa have been singled out by Congress for economic restrictions on two fronts.
A bill providing US money to the International Monetary Fund was amended last week to insist that before any loan to South Africa is agreed, the US Treasury Secretary must certify that the cash will be used to benefit the majority of the Soutt African people.
And a further proposal would outlaw future US dealing in Krugerrands, and place demands on US firms in South Africa to guarantee equal treatment for all workers, black and white.
It is this second policy which is likely to prove the most potentially damaging to US/ South African trade: and it will also prove very difficult, as Presidential elections loom ever closer, for Reagan to be seen to obstruct it.