Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nteta, two South Africans--Dennis Brutus, an exiled South African poet, and Donald Woods, a Nieman Fellow and exiled South African journalist--and Mary Nolan, associate professor of History, criticized Harvard's policy toward its South Africa related investments, saying divestiture would help end apartheid...
PRESIDENT BOK has recently concluded that nothing the University can do will help to eradicate apartheid in South Africa. while his position is debatable, Bok should view the University's further actions as, at least, a matter of conscience...
...conclusion of his second letter, Bok gives three reasons which condescendingly belittle the movement to divest Harvard of its holding in American companies operating in South Africa, as "an extraordinary proposition that would not receive serious consideration were it not for the passions that are so understandably aroused by apartheid and all its attendant injustices...
...objectives." This is the most disturbing aspect of our President's position. Many of us arrived here believing that one does what is right even if the results of doing so are unclear. No one would contend that Harvard alone can end apartheid or force corporate withdrawal from South Africa--the University simply does not control a large enough share of the stock of any single corporation--neither do all but a handful of powerful shareholders. But it is not Harvard's moral obligation to end apartheid; it is Harvard's moral obligation to terminate its support of a system...
This week the Harvard Corporation called on the Timken Company to withdraw from South Africa. The decision followed the release of President Bok's second open letter that terms divestiture unjustifies and contends that the most effective way to alter corporate practices in South Africa is by voting on shareholder resolutions and communicating "in other ways with management...