Sanctions
Sir, —Thanks to mining, rising prosperity is not confined to blacks born in South Africa. About half of South Africa's black miners come from abroad. Most of their wages are remitted. About 10 million people, in half a dozen countries, are financially dependent on South Africa’s mining industry. If mines close or reduce production, the first to be turned away will be black immigrants and, if sanctions do enough damage, South African blacks will lose their jobs, too. There is a simple calculation: of
every 100 jobs sanctions destroy about 75, and possibly more, are held by blacks; and these are the best-paid black Industrial jobs on the whole continent.—Yours,, etc.,
DAVID DUMERGUE. July 27, 1986.
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