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Dressed in the yellow T shirt of the United Democratic Front, a rapidly growing antiapartheid movement, Zindzi Mandela, 25, at the side of Johannesburg's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, stood silently for a moment in Soweto's Jabulani Stadium. Then she began to read to the 9,000 people gathered before her a message prepared by her father, Nelson Mandela, in his prison cell. "I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free," Mandela, South Africa's best-known black activist, said in his statement. "Only free...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu said, during his recent visit to Harvard, all American companies in South Africa are to some degree legitimizing apartheid. This legitimization is sometimes appallingly direct. American firms supply the computers that monitor the movement of Blacks and "coloreds" or the automobiles and petroleum that the military and police forces use to suppress the majority. But more important, the legitimization is indirect, because American corporations in South Africa cannot help but lend moral and economic support as well as credibility to the apartheid regimes simply through their physical presence...
...inception as chairman of the National Council of the South African Education Program (SAEP) which brings each year 80-90 nonwhite South Africans to begin studying in the United States. The scholarship recipients and their fields of study are determined by a committee in South Africa chaired by Bishop Desmond Tutu. Almost 225 such students are currently enrolled in American universities under the SAEP program. Through our efforts, approximately six million dollars are being raised annually for this purpose from U.S. corporations, universities, and the federal government...
What with Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, and Harvard's United Ministries all recently calling holdings and divest loudly rallying against apartheid the University may be headed for an unusually heavy wave of criticism...
...fall of the 1984-85 academic year was especially productive. We hosted a Freshman Brunch for over 700 persons; a Memorial Church service for 900 persons to celebrate the life and work of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; and the NAACP dinner for over 100 persons, including the organization's Executive Director, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, and his wife Frances Hooks. The Foundation is especially proud that all of these events were attended by students, faculty and staff of all races, backgrounds, colors and religions...