Apartheid: International Resolve

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This paper examines the international factors that led to the end of apartheid in South Africa. Over the years, the system increasingly came under fire from international sources both inside and outside governments. It discusses how from economic sanctions to grassroots political activism, external sources played an enormous role in pressuring the South African government to reform and subsequently abolish Apartheid in 1993.

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"Although generally slower to react than other outside sources, world governments including international "government" played a crucial role in the demise of the apartheid system in South Africa. Both the General Assembly and Security Council in the UN imposed sanctions against South Africa in order to exert pressure to change. A series of resolutions and sanctions by the UN beginning in 1962 truly began the formal international efforts to end apartheid. A resolution in 62 called for all UN states to break diplomatic relations with South Africa, boycott South African trade, and refuse landing rights to all planes belonging to the South African government."

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