Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee will most likely continue its case by case review of corporate practices in South Africa, Vagts said, adding that it will probably have time this fall to review a "quick round of information" on firms in South Africa...
...United Food and Commercial Workers in their effort to force Seattle-First National Bank to recognize the union as the bargaining agent for the bank's employees. He says he has recommended possible tactics to anti-nuclear activists and claims he could force banks to clear out of South Africa in a matter of months. "I'm willing to help any group fighting for labor or some just cause as long as that group supports us," he says...
Although the rest of the world has denounced the scheme and refused to recognize these "children of apartheid," Pretoria continues to push its homelands policy as the ultimate "solution to the racial problem in South Africa." Besides the three homelands that are now nominally independent, seven are in transitional stages on the road to autonomy. But that road is fraught with difficulties. Only three of the homelands, Ciskei, Qwaqwa and KaNgwane, are unitary territories; the rest are fragmented enclaves, surrounded by land reserved for whites. Only Transkei possesses a deep-water seaport. Apart from BophuthaTswana and Lebowa, which have rich...
Economic development of the homelands is totally dependent on outside investment, about 60% of which comes from South Africa; overseas investment provides the rest. This year the Pretoria government will contribute $35 million to Venda's modest budget of $43.6 million. Despite attempts by South Africa to promote industry in the black territories, the results have been unimpressive: fewer than 75,000 jobs have been created for black workers in the homelands...
...considerable part of it, was starting the long decline into the salty tourist trap the city is today. For almost 200 years, starting with the capture of Constantinople in 1453, the Turks had been snapping off the Venetian colonies in the eastern Mediterranean. Portuguese caravels, rounding the tip of Africa in increasing numbers, had taken away Venice's old monopoly of the spice trade. Venice was turning from an imperial power into a cultural artifact. As such, she was one of the most visited cities of Europe. For an artist, a trip to see the Bellinis and Titians...