blocked the development of a black bourgeoisie; while the black proletarat - now numbering more than six million workers — is a powerful force that could lead the national liberation struggle toward the overthrow of capitalism along with the apartheid SYSICHI. thom, Spie-Batignolles and Framateg) signed a contract with the African Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) to build two 920 megawatt nuclear reactors in South Africa - a decision which many observers fear could assist Pretoria's well-known drive to develop a nuclear weapons indsutry.
These cases of assistance to South Africa - both made since the wave of black uprisings illustrate the NATO powers' determination to bolster the racist regime.
The same interests have prompted the imperialists to seek a shift to more indirect, neo-colonial forms of rule in Zimbabwe and Namibia, where the burgeoning liberation struggles threaten - from the imperialist point of view - to spark still greater unrest alone black masses stable transfer of power to pro-imperialist black regimes in Namibia and Zimbabwe can be achieved.