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Events on Thursday 2 October 1986 1
1986Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid ActUS Congress imposes sanctions on South AfricaThe United States Congress overrode President Reagan's veto to enact sweeping economic sanctions against South Africa's apartheid government. The act banned new investment and imposed trade restrictions, pressuring Pretoria over its treatment of the Black majority. It marked a rare foreign-policy defeat for Reagan in Congress.