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Student protesters marched across Harvard Yard to the Square’s Pit area, carrying a 25-foot inflatable Coke bottle labeled “Stop Medical Apartheid?? and chanting “Coke’s greed kills! AIDS drugs for Africa...
South Africa in the 1980s was the right time and place for divestment. Apartheid??s racist laws and South Africa’s brutal repression of blacks were morally repugnant. Many institutions, including Harvard, divested their holdings in South African companies, as divestment was incorporated into a larger campaign of international censure, which was one prominent factor that successfully brought an end to the Apartheid system...
Many of my countrymen thought that the world would let South Africa get away with apartheid??the Americans and British liked our diamonds too much to pay more than lip-service to the plight of our black majority. But then what happened? Divestment campaigns and university sit-ins all over North America and Europe, and before you know it, we get slapped with UN sanctions...