Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such action by Harvard would boost the morale of the anti-apartheid; movement both in Africa and world-wide. Conversely, it would be a powerful blow to the arrogant self confidence of the Nationalists in South Africa. As Donald Woods, exiled South African newspaper editor and Harvard Nieman fellow, explained in a recent interview with The Crimson: The South African government has this belief that Uncle Sam will always bail it out. It looks upon Americans as basically white and believes that they'll think racially. It's my belief that until something is done that actually costs the United...
...Harvard University as a bastion of Western cultural and intellectual tradition is especially strong in the emerging African elites. But many in that group mistrust the West because of the years of European colonialism, the long period of total support by the West of white supremacy in South Africa, and the continuing refusal to back U.N. sanctions against South Africa. Seen in this context, Harvard is faced with the choice of a policy of ambivalence on apartheid (opposing it in words while at the same time profiting from it)--which can only cause cynicism among Africans--or a forthright stand...
Virtually all black organizations and leaders that are carrying on the struggle against apartheid in South Africa call for U.S. corporate withdrawal. This is the official position of the Black People's Convention, the South African Students Organizations, the African National Congress, the Pan-African Congress, the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and the Christian Institute in South Africa...
...argument of the anti-apartheid forces in South Africa is best summarized in the 1976 statement of the Christian Institute in South Africa...
...preventing the escalation of violence and bloodshed into a major confrontation. One of the few remaining methods of working peacefully is through economic pressure, which could help to motivate the changes needed to bring justice and peace...The Christian Institute supports the call for no further investment in South Africa because...