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The Future of Southern Africa |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--SOUTHERN AFRICA: PEACE AT LAST? |
| Author: Peter Duignan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,795 Words, 17,678 Characters |
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If South African President Frederik de Klerk keeps his promise to step up reforms and share power with blacks, the United States should, in turn, phase out its policy of sanctions and disinvestments. This would restore international confidence in South Africa and allow the economy to return to its presanctions high growth rate of 4 or 5 percent a year. If apartheid is ended, investors return, and the South African government reduces its level of intervention, the economic future of South Africa and southern Africa would be bright.
The injustices and inequalities to be found in South Africa are apparent to all. Nevertheless, black South Africans have derived very real benefits from the progressive nature of the country's economic system. Wages of blacks have gone up steadily, with the...
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...es continued social and ethnic diversity based on pragmatism and cooperation between the elites of each group. In such a state, each ethnic community would rule itself and hold veto power over decisions affecting it. The central parliament of the coalition government would be elected by proportional representation. In this way, a peaceful and prosperous South Africa could emerge in the 1990s.
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