LONDON: Britain supposition Labor party and the anti-apartheid movement to- day condemned proposals by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to impose limited sanctions against Pretoria as meaningless.
Thatcher previously opposed to sanctions as a means to force South Africa’s white led government to dismantle apartheid, told a mini-commonwealth summit that she would not stand in the way of limited measures proposed by – European community leaders in June.
Labour Foreign Affairs spokes- man Donald Anderson denounced the proposals as meaningless, half-hearted and grudging. It is a weak and almost meaningless affair, he added. I would have thought that by this halfhearted, unenthusiastic mini gesture, Mrs. Thatcher gets the worst of all worlds. She manages to put up the backs of the rest of the commonwealth while doing Nothing effective about South Africa.
The EC measures, which fall short of a package drawn up by the 49 commonwealth leaders 1st October, include a ban on new investment and the import of coal, iron, steel, and gold coins.
The President of anti-apartheid movement in Britain, Bishop Tremor Huddleston, dismissed that cheers concession as absurd and quite meaning.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 8, 1986
