ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the underlying motivation for that foreign policy response and the extent to which immediate domestic policies and longer-term goals for South African society were modified by the awareness of enlarged external pressure. The Afrikaans press ironically led white opinion with repeated demands for substantial changes within the framework of separate development. The liberal analysts argue that continued industrialization is basically incompatible with separate development. Industrialists will demand an efficient use of labor resources, without regard to racial constraints, and a profitable access to the largest possible market, including the black one. The government has shrewdly coped with increased needs for skilled black labor in government services— especially railways and harbors. Afrikaner optimism about consolidation was clouded in October 1975 by Botha's announcement that scheduled land purchases would have to be deferred because of the deteriorating economic situation in South Africa.
