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Apartheid and the International Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2017

E. S. Reddy
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Rarely has the policy of an individual government attracted as wide attention throughout the world as the racial policy of South Africa. It has been discussed in several organs of the United Nations, in specialized agencies of the United Nations, and in several other international and regional intergovernmental organizations; in the Parliament of many countries; and in numerous non-governmental organizations. A number of countries have broken diplomatic, consular and trade relations with South Africa or refrained from establishing such relations. Actions protesting apartheid have involved hundreds of thousands of people outside Africa. The publications and documents on apartheid fill a good-sized library.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Fall 1974 , pp. 19 - 24
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1974 

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* At the 29th session of the General Assembly in the Fall of 1974, the credentials of the South African delegation were rejected by 98 votes to 23, with 14 abstentions. By 125 votes to 1, with 9 abstentions, the Assembly declared that the racial policies of the South African government are “a flagrant violation of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights“ and asked the Security Council to review the relationship between the United Nations and South Africa. A majority of members of the Security Council voted for the expulsion of South Africa from the United Nations, but no decision was taken because of the vetoes of France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Therefore, the General Assembly decided to exclude the South African delegation from participation in its session.