istering actually cast their votes, most of South African's new nonwhite parliamentarians were elected on the basis of the votes of only a few hundred people. Most blacks saw the new institutions as a farce.
The identification of Washington with some of the most detested devices of the white regime may have helped to discredit black South African leaders who were not entirely ill-disposed to the United States, as well as American liberal politicians who were willing to support only moderate tactics in the struggle against apartheid. Thus, the radical Azanian People's Organization (AZAPO), a "black consciousness" group, demonstrated against Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat-Massachusetts) and succeeded in ruining his visit to South Africa early in 1985. Meanwhile, black spokesmen, such as Dr. Nthatho Motlana, who had been an early activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and, as chairman of the "Committee of Ten" had the support of his community in confronting the authorities during the Soweto riots of 1976, now appeared increasingly irrelevant to the
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