W. H. Hutt and The economics of the colour bar |
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Authors: | W E Williams |
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Institution: | (1) George Mason University, 22030 Fairfax, VA |
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Abstract: | Conclusion Long before the international climate of opinion made South Africa’s system of legalized racial discrimination untenable,
it was under attack from within. A tiny part of that struggle was waged on moral grounds by decent South Africans both white
and nonwhite. The much larger part of the war was waged not on moral grounds but on the economic battlefield where the stakes
were profit and losses. As W. H. Hutt so aptly points out, the major disadvantages of apartheid were borne by South Africa’s
nonwhite population, but the disadvantage was shared by whites as well. As such it produced widespread tensions leading to
resistance, evasion, contravention, and modi-fication of apartheid law. Often evasion and contravention of apartheid law was
led by the very people who shared the ideology of white supremacy. The final abolition of apartheid law may indeed reflect
a change in heart by South African whites but the coup de grace was, as Hutt put it, the liberating forces “released by what is variously called the ‘free market system,’ the ‘capitalist
system,’ or the ‘profit system.’” |
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