... improve the working conditions for the blacks working in their South African factories. For example, many American companies (e.g. General Motors) agreed to the 'Sullivan Principles' which guaranteed equal pay for equal work, no segregation and better training for blacks. However, for many critics of apartheid, things like the 'Sullivan Principles' were not enough. They persuaded many Western businesses to actually pull out of South Africa completely and Western governments to impose economic sanctions on South Africa. They probably thought that the Nationalists would only give political rights to the black if they suffered from such economic punishments. As the Western governments intended, the economic sanctions had a disastrous effect on South Africa. South Africa was not getting any of the vital supplies which they needed and the excess products which they made were going to waste as their primary consumers (outside countries) refused to buy these products. Therefore, ...

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