The Psychology of Apartheid by Peter LambleyReview by: Jennifer Seymour WhitakerForeign Affairs, Vol. 59, No. 5 (Summer, 1981), p. 1194Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20040978 .

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1194 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

A frank and virtually unalloyed admiration for the strength and capability of South Africa's nationalist regime pervades this study by Hoover Institution Senior Fellows Gann and Duignan. Their thesis?that South Africa will be able to resist all conceivable threats to the status quo for the foreseeable future and that the West should therefore support the current regime?is buttressed

by an array of economic and military statistics. Their picture of South Africa's situation is, however, fatally flawed by their neglect of several crucial factors: the effect of apartheid in creating a new generation of militant blacks; the

change in both black and white perceptions about the survival of the status

quo with the independence of Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe; and the

growing Western stake in the resources and trade of black Africa.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF APARTHEID. By Peter Lambley. Athens: Uni versity of Georgia Press, 1981, 291 pp. $16.50.

A clinical psychologist trained in South Africa offers a provocative psycho logical profile of South Africa's main racial groups and their responses to

apartheid. Although its scientific soundness is difficult to judge, Lambley's

comparison of attitudes of Afrikaners, English and Coloureds as revealed in

psychological testing is fascinating and original; in addition, his account of the treatment of blacks and whites in an Afrikaans mental hospital offers an

extraordinary glimpse of the uses of the madhouse in achieving social control. His generalizations outside of his immediate clinical experience, however, seem based on very little evidence?particularly about blacks, whom he

portrays as largely acquiescent victims of the apartheid system.

UP AGAINST APARTHEID: THE ROLE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE PRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA. By Richard Pollak. Carbondale: Southern

Illinois University Press, 1981, 157 pp. $12.95. This richly anecdotal essay describes the maze of restrictions circumscribing

South Africa's press, and the rigidly controlled content of South African

television. Unfortunately, the author provides only scanty coverage of the influential Afrikaans newspapers.

THE AFRICAN-ARAB CONFLICT IN THE SUDAN. By Dunstan M. Wai. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981, 234 pp. $35.50.

Supporting his first-hand knowledge of his country's civil war with appar

ently careful research, a southern Sudanese political scientist provides an

authoritative history of the politics of war and peace between Sudan's Arab

North and African South. Positive and hopeful about present and future

relations between the two areas, he nonetheless points out the fragility of the

present governmental arrangement uniting them, and suggests a federal

arrangement which would be effective for Arab as well as African regions.

AFRICAN SOCIALISM IN TWO COUNTRIES. By Ahmed Mohiddin. Totowa (N.J.): Barnes & Noble, 1981, 231 pp. $25.00.

A lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Nairobi

compares Kenya's official development policy of "African socialism" with

Tanzania's "Ujamaa" socialism, starting with the original declarations of the two policies and examining their subsequent implementation. His conclusion

will startle no one: Kenyan "socialism," which is really capitalism, has fostered

both economic growth and gross inequities; Tanzania's genuine socialism, on

the other hand, has leveled inequities but stunted growth.

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