Contents: INTRODUCTION: Progress in South Africa • SUMMARY: Conditions for Termination of Sanctions • ANALYSIS: Requirements for Termination of Sanctions • CONCLUSION • APPENDIX I FIFTY-NINE SELECTED APARTHEID LAWS • APPENDIX II THE COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-APARTHEID ACT OF 1986 SECTION 311 • Important recent developments in South Africa provide the basis for cautious optimism about the prospects for reform, but changes instituted by the de Klerk government do not yet meet the requirements for lifting sanctions under the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-440). Nor do they provide assurances of genuine irreversible progress toward a democratic government. Until this...
Contents: INTRODUCTION: Progress in South Africa • SUMMARY: Conditions for Termination of Sanctions • ANALYSIS: Requirements for Termination of Sanctions • CONCLUSION • APPENDIX I FIFTY-NINE SELECTED APARTHEID LAWS • APPENDIX II THE COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-APARTHEID ACT OF 1986 SECTION 311 • Important recent developments in South Africa provide the basis for cautious optimism about the prospects for reform, but changes instituted by the de Klerk government do not yet meet the requirements for lifting sanctions under the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-440). Nor do they provide assurances of genuine irreversible progress toward a democratic government. Until this has happened and legitimate representatives of South Africa's Black majority call for a lifting of sanctions, U.S. sanctions should remain in place. South Africa's record so far is inconsistent; Nelson Mandela was released from prison just over one year ago and President F.W. de Klerk also unbanned political parties, lifted the national state of emergency, and repealed the Separate Amenities Act. The government has failed to adhere to its agreement to release all political prisoners by April 30, 1991; a bureaucratic quagmire has also delayed the return of exiles with indemnity. The South African Parliament has now repealed three of the "pillars of apartheid" -- the Group Areas Act, the Land Acts and the Population Registration Act - but this has been negated by passage of measures that will maintain status quo segregation and discrimination in government, education, housing and land rights. Crucially, the government has made no concession on Black voting rights. The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (CAAA) provides the U.S. with a powerful means to influence South African authorities. The report examines in detail each of the five legal requirements for the lifting of U.S. sanctions against progress that has been achieved to date. Appendix I lists many laws that continue to form the legal basis of the apartheid system. The report mentions the African National Congress (ANC), Pan African Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP), United Democratic Front (UDF), and a racially divided tricameral Parliament.
