ABSTRACT
This chapter examines specific areas of United States-South African relations primarily during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. It discusses some of the foreign policy actions in an attempt to determine why actual economic sanctions never were instituted. South African domestic policy has complicated US foreign policy. Several factors contribute to making South Africa unique in the world. South Africa’s policy of apartheid has obsessed the rest of Africa and resulted in a continual call for economic sanctions from the rest of the world. The US repeatedly announced its opposition to apartheid and supported nearly every condemnation in the United Nations of racial segregation. In the fall of 1962, a special UN committee on apartheid reported to the General Assembly on the potential impact of sanctions against South Africa. In the autumn of 1963, the Security Council again considered the question of sanctions against South Africa.
