Word: apartheid
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...have stressed before, touting Harvard’s divestment from South African firms in the 1980s is a misguided parallel. The situations are entirely different, and thus while divestment was the appropriate decision two decades ago—and one which certainly contributed to ending the Apartheid system—it is an inappropriate comparison today...
Panelists argued that last June’s divestment resolution is in keeping with the Presbyterian Church’s history. The church has previously pursued divestment efforts against other targets, including tobacco companies and firms with ties to South Africa’s apartheid government...
...Botha government, for its part, is concerned that vivid scenes of violence between police and black protesters may have caused a deep visceral opposition in TV viewers around the world to South Africa's system of apartheid. The new rules are toughest on broadcast journalists. Television and photographic crews are now required to leave the scene if violence breaks out in any of the 38 districts where the government has declared a "state of emergency." Says Deputy Minister of Information Louis Nel: "The presence of television and camera crews has proved to be a catalyst for further violence...
...spokesmen predictably deny his effectiveness. Says Embassy Press Attaché Pieter Swanepoel: "The activities have had no impact on government decision-making policy. How could they, when they are taking place so far away from where those policies are formed?" But U.S. Senators and Representatives who voted for sanctions against apartheid enthusiastically acknowledge that Robinson's cool, calm competence helped rally black and white Americans against apartheid. Said one congressional staffer: "Everybody can tell that Randall Robinson is no bomb thrower...
TransAfrica is now on a far sounder footing (this year's budget: $400,000), and Robinson's thoughts go beyond mere survival. He sees his witness against apartheid as a fight for U.S. blacks as well. "For black Americans, a response to South Africa is a response to them," he says. "This is a test of our own democracy." Next on his agenda: deploying pickets against IBM, General Motors, Ford and other major U.S. corporations that do business with South Africa. Says Robinson: "They are providing the legs on which this monster walks." --By John S. DeMott. Reported by Hays...