Encouraging Signs of Change - An outsider can fume about the cruelty and immorality of South African apartheid, but there's little he can do to change it. That cold fact about his impotence is hard for an outsider to accept, especially when his emotions are wrought by the sight of an uncaring and unfeeling government trampling on the rights and lives of little people, both black and white, for the glory of an abhorrent race theory. Yet unless one accepts the truth of his weakness, an outsider will look too far and too high and fail to see what few, minor but real ways are left for trying to change South Africa. The power of South Africa must be analyzed with cold logic, not emotion, and the possibilities for change must be analyzed the same way. Three facts about the South African situation must be faced. First, the white South Africans who oppose apartheid and speak in the same liberal idiom as many outsiders have little influence and less power. At the moment, their way offers no hope for the future. South Africans like Alan Paton and Helen Suzman are courageous, honest and exciting people who deserve their worldwide renown and respect...

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