Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the administration now in control of the divestiture debate, student groups are changing the focus of their protests. The SASC plans to join with other anti-apartheid groups and increase the scope of their activities to include the Boston area as well as Harvard. The SASC is branching out of Harvard because it "doesn't want divestiture to obscure the larger goal of corporate withdrawl," Matthew Rothschild '80, an SASC member, explains. Molly Nolan, associate professor of History, agrees. Any number of institutions are linked to aiding the South African regime, not just Harvard," she says...
Nine student groups claimed at that time, and many groups still maintain today, that Harvard helps to sustain the South African government and its apartheid system by investing in corporations active in that country. A demonstration of more that 1000 students on the Pusey steps, their march to Holyoke center, and confrontation with President Bok on April 24, 1978 started widespread student support for the demands of the student groups...
...SASC will redirect its activities. It plans to join with other student anti-apartheid groups to provide material aid for Zimbabwe's Patriotic Front and to oppose a boxing match between the black American John Tate and the white South African Gerrie Coetzee. Rothschild says the upcoming fight "is being used as a ploy for white supremicist propaganda, with Coetzee billed as the 'Great White Hope...
Soweto, the cluster of poor black suburbs outside South Africa's gleaming commercial capital, Johannesburg, has always epitomized the darkest side of apartheid. Since it was developed as a dormitory for black labor toward the end of the last century, the township has been largely lacking in basic necessities, including roads, transit faculties, plumbing and electricity. Indeed, Soweto's lack of lighting contributed significantly to the frustration that fueled the June 1976 riots that ultimately cost the lives of 600 blacks...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC): probably the most active single-issue group around. The SASC is dedicated to educating students about, and persuading them to protest, Harvard's participation in South African apartheid through its investments in corporations that operate there...