UN General Assembly
1982

thousands of black South Africans in hastily created Bantustans in order to deprive them of citizenship in the land of their birth. We do not appear to have much chance of addressing the problem of South Africa in the comprehensive manner which it demands if we are unable to compel Member States to comply with our resolutions. We do not appear to have much chance of isolating the virus of South Africa, when a Committee established by the General Assembly in to draft an international convention against in sports is unable to present an agreed convention six years later. But we must continue to try, for what is happening in South Africa is a mark against all mankind, an assault on our decency, violence to our world as human beings. It requires every Government represented in the Assembly to support efforts to uphold creative ways in which the wrongs in South Africa can be put right. Not least amongst our efforts must be the full implementation of Security Council resolution 435 (1978), which establishes the framework for the