South Africa - A Great Success for the West

By 19 86, years of constant antiopartate uprisings and resistance forced the government to declare a nation wide state of emergency. Its finances were bitten by more economic sanctions when foreign banks refused to lend to south african borrowers and called in government loans. The regime was faced with a re difficult balancing act. Repression and improving welfare cost oney. And they found that they couldn't afford both.