pointed by the government or indirectly elected. IS
By June 1986, the government had also eliminated some segregation
laws. It had repealed the bans on multiracial political parties and inter-
racial sex and marriage. It had stopped reserving by law particular catego-
ries of jobs for white workers. It had opened up the business centers in the
cities to black traders. It had desegregated some classes of hotels, restau-
rants, trains, buses, and public facilities and had permitted sports contests
to take place between teams of different races. It was also turning a blind
eyeto black occupation of apartments and houses in parts ofJohannesburg
and Cape Town that were zoned under the Group Areas Act for exclusive
white occupation.
Year after year, the government had also increased the
funds for black education. During the early 1980s, moreover, industry had
raised the level of black wages (although by 1986 black real wages had
stabilized
as a result of inflation).
From time to time, government
spokespeople had also made a number of reassuring statements for African
consumption.
On one occasion, Botha himself said that South Africa had
outgrown
apartheid
and that Africans would be incorporated
into the
decision-making
process at the national level.16