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 100 STAT. 1090

PUBLIC LAW 99-440—OCT. 2, 1986 POLICY TOWARD THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, ETC.

Pan African Congress. 22 USC 5012.

SEC. 102 (a) United States policy toward the African National Congress, the Pan African Congress, and their affiliates shall be designed to bring about a suspension of violence that will lead to the start of negotiations designed to bring about a nonracial and genuine democracy in South Africa. (b) The United States shall work toward this goal by encouraging the African National Congress and the Pan African Congress, and their affiliates, to— (1) suspend terrorist activities so that negotiations with the Government of South Africa and other groups representing black South Africans will be possible; (2) make known their commitment to a free and democratic post-apartheid South Africa; (3) agree to enter into negotiations with the South African Government and other groups representing black South Africans for the peaceful solution of the problems of South Africa; (4) reexamine their ties to the South African Communist Party. (c) The United States will encourage the actions set forth in subsection (b) through political and diplomatic measures. The United States will adjust its actions toward the Government of South Africa not only to reflect progress or lack of progress made by the Government of South Africa in meeting the goal set forth in subsection 101(a) but also to reflect progress or lack of progress made by the ANC and other organizations in meeting the goal set forth in subsection (a) of this section. POLICY TOWARD THE VICTIMS OF APARTHEID

22 USC 5013.

SEC. 103. (a) The United States policy toward the victims of apartheid is to use economic, political, diplomatic, and other effective means to achieve the removal of the root cause of their victimization, which is the apartheid system. In anticipation of the removal of the system of apartheid and as a further means of challenging that system, it is the policy of the United States to assist these victims of apartheid as individuals and through organizations to overcome the handicaps imposed on them by the system of apartheid and to help prepare them for their rightful roles as full participants in the political, social, economic, and intellectual life of their country in the post-apartheid South Africa envisioned by this Act. (b) The United States will work toward the purposes of subsection (a)by(1) providing assistance to South African victims of apartheid without discrimination by race, color, sex, religious belief, or political orientation, to take advantage of educational opportunities in South Africa and in the United States to prepare for leadership positions in a post-apartheid South Africa; (2) assisting victims of apartheid; (3) aiding individuals or groups in South Africa whose goals are to aid victims of apartheid or foster nonviolent legal or political challenges to the apartheid laws; (4) furnishing direct financial assistance to those whose nonviolent activities had led to their arrest or detention by the

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