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Article: `South Africa's Quiet Revolution'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 22, 1990
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As one who has lived in South Africa for 15 years, I believe
William Claiborne's article "South Africa's Quiet Revolution"
{Outlook, Jan. 14} displays a basic misunderstanding of the complex
struggle going on in South Africa.
Mr. Claiborne writes that economic sanctions, especially those
imposed by the United States, have become the catalyst in the rapid
decline of living standards-particularly among white South Africans.
He argues that South Africa's net capital outflow of $4 billion
(which as investment capital has a multiplying effect) and a
plummeting in the country's economic growth rate from 5 percent to 2
percent were a major result of punitive sanctions. The consequence
of these ...