By Robert S. Jaster
As a fruits of a decade's study by means of a former senior US intelligence analyst on South African affairs, this booklet examines the function of family politics, safety issues and bureaucratic clash in South Africa. From his viewpoint as a professional observer of southern Africa's politics and local protection, the writer offers an incisive research of the overseas coverage strategy and transferring suggestions below Vorster and P.W.Botha. He exhibits how household race guidelines pose the dominant constraint on overseas coverage and analyzes the successes and screw ups of Botha's destabilization procedure. eventually he assesses the worsening coverage surroundings dealing with the white minority management within the Nineteen Nineties and its implications for neighborhood defense. the writer additionally wrote "South Africa in Namibia" and "Southern Africa - local safeguard difficulties and Prospects".
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Rowland and I undertook to use our good offices to approach these two leaders and we had the advantage of not being connected to any particular political viewpoint or party. We could not exploit the thing to our own advantage and secondly we could Decision-Making and the Foreign Policy Process 27 be repudiated by either party at any time. We were sufficiently small to be repudiated and that was always the strength of our negotiations. ] In this informal, ad hoc way, with no participation by South African officials, Vorster's important detente initiative was launched: an initiative that soon led to the first major break in the Rhodesian logjam discussed in Part III.
In the face of this growing hostility and isolation South African diplomats fought a futile holding action. On occasion the leadership was persuaded to take steps to make apartheid more palatable to the outside world, particularly the West. But such efforts only showed how little the leaders were aware of outside attitudes towards apartheid. Thus in 1962 the Prime Minister, Verwoerd, was convinced by his foreign minister that the gravity of South Africa's international situation required the government 'to do something dramatic and spectacular' to show the world that it was serious about political rights for blacks; otherwise damaging international action would be taken against the Republic.
This provoked an angry revolt by all the opposition parties, who accused the government of contempt of Parliament. President Botha personally intervened to regain their parliamentary cooperation; but he was forced to agree to a number of concessions, including a demand by the PFP that a select committee be appointed to evaluate sanctions and the steps needed to counter them. 8 On a number of specific foreign policy issues, however, the opposition parties and the government have been in accord. All oppose Western sanctions, for example, even though the PFP charged that Botha's failure to move decisively on fundamental race reform made sanctions inevitable.