Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skocpol said, however, that corporate withdrawal from South Africa is the best means of bringing about change in South Africa because "most corporations are doing very valuable services for the South African government...
...issued last April that it was not certain whether withdrawal would lead to the end of apartheid or to more restrictions. But the Corporation stated that it would support withdrawal if a company refused to state its policies or refused to implement equitable employment practices and supported the South African government more than it benefited the nation's blacks...
Thom Ramiga, a South African student, said yesterday. "At that point, students were really mad. People were given the impression that the reply from the administration might be favorable. Some students were even crying," he added...
...ACSR piously states the obvious--that the South Africa government's policy of apartheid is abhorrent--and feigns a deep concern about American corporate support of the South African status quo. At the same time, however, it advises Harvard to do as littlehas possible to pressure companies in which the University owns stock to reform their employment policies, and less to withdraw from the country entirely...
Twelve of the 42 corporations that have already been asked to provide information about their South African operations either have chosen not to answer Harvard's questionnaire or have answered inadequately. So what does the ACSR propose to do? Write them again. What the committee fails to realize is that these companies will continue to scoff at Harvard's alleged concern about corporate involvement in South Africa as long as the University refuses to go public...