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
The reform process had distinct limits. School education
remained
strictly segregated, and in 1986 the government was still spending more
than seven times as much to educate a white child as to educate an African
child,!? and similar disparities remained in health and welfare services.
Although some black people in the townships were well-to-do, the vast
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