S. African Blacks Back Sanctions, Poll Indicates

South Africa’s urban blacks support international trade sanctions against the Pretoria government, but most doubt that apartheid will be ended short of civil war, according to a poll for the Sunday Times of London.

Of 400 persons polled by Markinor, a Gallup-affiliated firm, 77% favored sanctions and 21% thought sanctions would be wrong. The paper described this finding as “a reversal of previous trends in South African polls, which have tended to show a slim black majority against sanctions.”