Apartheid Dead, French Group Finds

Nine conservative members of the French Parliament ended a two-week visit to South Africa on Sunday, declaring that apartheid is dead and labeling international sanctions against the Pretoria government a serious political error.

The nine were visiting the country at the invitation of the white government. They said that South Africa is on the road to genuine democracy and called for supportive measures from the West to permit this to be achieved without further human suffering.

“Apartheid has been abolished by the South African government in 1984,” they said in a news conference statement at Johannesburg airport, “and no discrimination between whites, Coloreds, Asians and blacks exists in public places that were frequented (by them).”