Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wednesday, 24--In their first ever vote on divestment, the Board of Overseers calls on the University's governing Corporation to sever all ties with companies that do business in South Africa...
...corporation member comments: "Divestment? What do they mean by that?" Another corporation member comments: "Divestment, mmmm, that means we should sell stock in companies that do business in South Africa, doesn...
Monday, 4--Harvard's governing Corporation agrees to consider the Board of Overseer's recommendation that the University divest of its South Africa-related holdings. "Golly," says President Bok, "What a good idea. Why didn't that ever occur to Henry...
Monday, 11--The Corporation votes to divest of all South Africa related stocks...
...visitors had traveled only ten miles from Pretoria to the black township of Mamelodi. But it was a vast journey, from the affluent white world of South Africa to its Third World of black poverty. The 173 whites, many of them members of the Dutch Reformed Church, came to Mamelodi, home to as many as half a million people, last week to strike a small blow against apartheid. For four days they lived and ate with blacks, slept in cramped homes, some without electricity and indoor plumbing, and washed at backyard faucets. "The tragedy of apartheid that we learn from...