UN General Assembly
1984

203. The problem of the apartheid system of South Africa has been on the agenda of the Organization for a long time. The racist regime in Pretoria continues to defy United Nations resolutions on this critical issue. The regime deprives the black people of that country of the right to enjoy basic human rights in their own land. In all walks of life, the black people in South Africa have no say in the conduct of the daily affairs affecting them. Their demands for social, economic and political changes for the benefit of all the people of the country are always ruthlessly suppressed by the racist regime in its desperate efforts to protect its inhuman apartheid policies. Measures are carefully designed for the forceful exploitation of the black man's human and material resources. These inhuman practices are the most basic causes of political tension and social conflict in the whole region. The stage has been progressively set for unavoidable social violence, with potential consequences for international peace and security. The world witnessed dozens of people being killed and many more injured in early September this year, when unrest and violence occurred in the black townships of Sharpeville, Sebokeng and Evaton, south of Johannesburg. Thus, the racist regime is continuing to sharpen its weapons of terror further to undermine the demands of the black people for democracy, equality and justice for all.