Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-90

§4 Repeal of Apartheid Sanctions Laws and Other Measures Directed at South Africa.

Title 22 › Chapter 60— ANTI-APARTHEID PROGRAM › § 4

Last updated May 14, 2026|Official source

Summary

Most of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 was ended on November 23, 1993. The law kept a few parts for a little longer: sections 1, 3, 203(a), 203(b), 205, 207, 208, 601, 603, and 604 stay in force until the President tells Congress that an interim, nonracial government chosen in free and fair elections has taken office in South Africa. The President certified that happened on June 8, 1994. Section 3 was also changed by removing several numbered paragraphs. Parts of the Foreign Assistance Act added by the 1986 law (section 116(e)(2), (f), (g); section 117; and section 535) were repealed, and section 116(e)(1) was adjusted. The law also repeals or changes many other related provisions in various acts, including parts of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985, several Foreign Relations Authorization Acts, the Export-Import Bank Act, the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, a provision in H.R. 5205, and section 901(j)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code (while leaving certain transitional tax rules intact). The Trade Act table entry for "Republic of South Africa" is removed. Congress urges all state and local governments and private groups in the United States to drop any rules that limit business with South Africa. Effective October 1, 1995, two named supplemental-appropriations provisions are repealed. Congress also says the United States should keep following United Nations Security Council resolutions on South Africa, including the mandatory arms embargo and limits on military and nuclear cooperation.

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Title 22, §4

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“(a)“(1)All provisions of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (22 U.S.C. 5001 and following) are repealed as of the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 23, 1993], except for the sections specified in paragraph (2).

“(2)section 1, 3, 203(a), 203(b), 205, 207, 208, 601, 603, and 604 of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 [22 U.S.C. 5001 note, 5001, 5031(a), (b), 5032, 5034, 5035, 5111, 5113, 5114] are repealed as of the date on which the President certifies to the Congress that an interim government, elected on a nonracial basis through free and fair elections, has taken office in South Africa. [A Presidential message to Congress dated June 8, 1994, set out in 30 Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 1258, June 13, 1994, certified that interim government, elected on nonracial basis through free and fair elections, had taken office in South Africa.]

“(3)(A)section 3 of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 [22 U.S.C. 5001] is amended by striking paragraphs (2) through (4) and paragraphs (7) through (9), by inserting ‘and’ at the end of paragraph (5), and by striking ‘; and’ at the end of paragraph (6) and inserting a period.

“(B)The following provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 that were enacted by the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 are repealed: subsections (e)(2), (f), and (g) of section 116 (22 U.S.C. 2151n); section 117 (22 U.S.C. 2151o), relating to assistance for disadvantaged South Africans; and section 535 (22 U.S.C. 2346d). section 116(e)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by striking ‘(1)’.

“(b)The following provisions are repealed or amended as follows:

“(1)Subsections (c) and (d) of section 802 of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 (99 Stat. 261) is repealed.

“(2)section 211 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (99 Stat. 432) is repealed, and section 1(b) of that Act is amended by striking the item in the table of contents relating to section 211.

“(3)section 1223 and 1224 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (101 Stat. 1415) is repealed, and section 1(b) of that Act is amended by striking the items in the table of contents relating to section 1223 and 1224.

“(4)section 362 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (105 Stat. 716) is repealed, and section 2 of that Act is amended by striking the item in the table of contents relating to section 362.

“(5)section 2(b)(9) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635(b)(9)) is repealed.

“(6)section 43 of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act (22 U.S.C. 286aa) is amended by repealing subsection (b) and by striking ‘(a)’.

“(7)section 330 of H.R. 5205 of the 99th Congress (Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1987) (22 U.S.C. 5056a) as incorporated by reference in section 101(l) of Public Law 99–500 and Public Law 99–591, and made effective as if enacted into law by section 106 of Public Law 100–202, is repealed.

“(8)(A)section 901(j)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 901(j)(2)(C)) is repealed.

“(B)Subparagraph (A) shall not be construed as affecting any of the transitional rules contained in Revenue Ruling 92–62 which apply by reason of the termination of the period for which section 901(j) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 was applicable to South Africa.

“(9)The table in section 502(b) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2462(b)) is amended by striking ‘Republic of South Africa’.

“(c)“(1)The Congress urges all State or local governments and all private entities in the United States that have adopted any restriction on economic interactions with South Africa, or any policy discouraging such interaction, to rescind such restriction or policy.

“(2)Effective October 1, 1995, the following provisions are repealed:

“(A)The undesignated paragraph entitled ‘state and local anti-apartheid policies’ in chapter IX of the Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations and Transfers, Urgent Supplementals, and Correcting Enrollment Errors Act of 1989 (22 U.S.C. 5117).

“(B)section 210 of the Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1986 (100 Stat. 749).

“(d)It is the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue to respect United Nations Security Council resolutions on South Africa, including the resolution providing for a mandatory embargo on arms sales to South Africa and the resolutions relating to the import of arms, restricting exports to the South African military and police, and urging states to refrain from nuclear cooperation that would contribute to the manufacture and development by South Africa of nuclear weapons or nuclear devices.

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22 U.S.C. § 4

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

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May 14, 2026

Release point: 119-90