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From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: South African Blacks
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 08:33:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 08:33:09 1985
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In article <44@utecfc.UUCP> dennis@utecfc.UUCP (Dennis Ferguson) writes:
>In article <7635@watrose.UUCP> gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) writes:
>>The same results, decent wages, freedom (whatever that
>>means in the African context - do you regard Ugandans as "free"?) 
>>and dignity can be obtained (and sooner) without sanctions and boycotts
>>from the outside world.
>
>The trouble I have with the opinion in the last sentence is that (at
>least as far as I can judge from what makes the news) it seems that
>most of the South African proponents of this point-of-view are white.
>Black spokesmen seem to be almost always in favour of sanctions and
>boycotts. 

...because the blacks opposed to sanctions etc. just do not get the "press"
the others do.  Why, I do not know - because they are perceived as "puppets"
by the media (or is labeled as such by other blacks and the media is then
reluctant to talk to them) ??  Buthelezi "represents" 5 million blacks and
his Inkhata movement (with >1 million members) certainly opposes sanctions
- and he is certainly not a supporter of the SA government.  I can give
you names of more black leaders who oppose sanctions and the government,
people that you just don't hear about on TV, radio or in the newspapers.