Pressures on Apartheid

IN South Africa today there exist pressures for change, superficial and po tentially far-reaching, complementary and contradictory, deriving from a variety of sources: economic, political, Black, White, foreign and domestic. The dynamics of the situation suggest an image of a series of cogs whose vary ing and opposing motions and alternate meshing and disengagement produce erratic and undirected movement. The task of assessing the significance and direction of change is an awk ward one. Intensifying and broadening international activity, evolving in ternal patterns and raised Black expectations provide a shifting background. Further, radically differing perceptions and evaluations of the meaning and pace of change are bound to make both analysis and communication difficult. Nonetheless, trends of some seeming significance for the contemporary de velopment of South African institutions are taking place in three principal areas: increasing criticism and protest by the Black leadership of the Bantu stans or native reserves; activity among urban Blacks, particularly in the Black labor movement; and wide-ranging efforts by outside groups, organiza tions and businesses to influence South African racial policy

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