ABSTRACT
The international effort to alter South Africa's racial policies has employed forms of political and social sanctions on a wide scale. Placed on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly in 1952, "the question of race conflict in South Africa resulting from the policies of apartheid of the government of the Union of South Africa " could not be treated in the same delicately legal manner as the situation of the Indians. The apartheid conflict grew during the period 1960-62 as a result of two principal factors: the dramatic events of Sharpeville, and the upbeat of African organisational efforts. The direction of the apartheid dispute during 1963-64 is notable for the role of the Organisation of African Unity, formed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in May 1963. Events in Southern Africa in the course of 1974 led to a dramatic testing of South Africa's position in the United Nations.
