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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

PUBLIC LAW 99-83—AUG. 8, 1985

99 STAT. 261

(3) The administrator shall submit the results of the studies conducted pursuant to this subsection to the Congress within 3 months after the date of enactment of this Act. (c)

SOUTH AFRICA EDUCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS.—Funds

available to carry out chapter 4 of part 11 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for fiscal year 1986 and fiscal year 1987 which are used 22 USC 2346. for education or training programs in South Africa may not be used for programs conducted by or through organizations in South Africa which are financed or controlled by the Government of South Africa, such as the "homeland" and "urban council" authorities. Such funds may only be used for programs which in both their character and organizational sponsorship in South Africa clearly reflect the objective of a majority of South Africans for an end to the apartheid system of separate development. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit programs which are consistent with this subsection and which award university scholarships to students who choose to attend a South African-supported university. (d) HUMAN RIGHTS FUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA.—Of the amount Legal assistance. allocated for the Human Rights Fund for South Africa under chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for each of the fiscal years 1986 and 1987, not less than 35 percent shall be used for direct legal and other assistance to political detainees and prisoners and their families, including the investigation of the killing of protestors and prisoners, and for support for actions of black-led community organizations to resist, through non-violent means, the enforcement of apartheid policies such as— (1) removal of black populations from certain geographic areas on account of race or ethnic origin, (2) denationalization of blacks, including any distinctions between the South African citizenships of blacks and whites, (3) residence restrictions based on race or ethnic origin, (4) restrictions on the rights of blacks to seek employment in South Africa and live wherever they find employment in South Africa, and (5) restrictions which make it impossible for black employees and their families to be housed in family accommodations near their place of employment. SEC. 803. POLICY TOWARD SOUTH AFRICAN "HOMELANDS".

(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— (1) the sanctity of the family, individual liberty, maximum freedom of choice, ownership of private property, and equal treatment of all citizens, regardless of race, are principles which are fully supported by the American people; (2) the forced relocation of blacks by the Government of the Republic of South Africa to designated "homelands" divides families, as families are required to remain in the "homelands" while fathers seek work in the so-called "white areas"; (3) the forced removal of persons living in so-called "black spots" in "white" rural areas in South Africa denies them the fundamental right to live and to farm on land they have legally occupied for years, and subjects them to arbitrary arrest and detention when they seek these rights; (4) compared to white" South Africa, the designated "homelands", which are meant to accommodate the largest South African population group on a fraction of South African terri-