Effects of economic boycott of S.A.
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Crspdt) SYDNEY, September 9. Economic boycotts on South Africa would not have the effect that sports boycotts had achieved, the white South African member of Parliament, Mrs Helen Suzman, has said in Sydney.
Mrs Suzman, for 13 years the only anti-apartheid M.P. in South Africa, said on Australian television that the sports boycotts had been successful in changing views. But they had not affected
the black man. except perhaps psychologically. “We believe changes inside South Africa to be the vital issue and there have been some changes, but they’re not so far-reaching that they affect the lives of the average everyday black man to any I great extent," she said. I Facing a panel of antiI apartheid supporters, Mrs (Suzman said that recent demonstrations against Woolwftrths in Sydney because it sells South African fish fingers would have only a tiny effect. South Africa would be hit much harder if there were an attack on its exports of metals and minerals, but such action was difficult to achieve because the products exported were not consumer goods.
She believed far greater changes could be implemented if people and governments pressured companies with branches in South Africa to improve working conditions for black people.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33944, 10 September 1975, Page 17
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