Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watrose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watrose!gdvsmit From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: South African Blacks Message-ID: <7638@watrose.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 08:33:09 EST Article-I.D.: watrose.7638 Posted: Mon Oct 28 08:33:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:33:56 EST References: <1534@utcsri.UUCP> <7635@watrose.UUCP> <44@utecfc.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 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.