Occasional Paper

South Africa and U.S Policy

“The conflict in South Africa is for respect, dignity, participation, privilege, human rights, and civil Liberty liberty, as well as access to and the weilding of power in its rawest form. But instead it has been
enormously difficult, for South Africa, albeit white-ruled and afflicted with the cancer of apartheid, is a strong nation, rich in resources, locally dominant, Western in character and alignment, and historically an associate of the West. “