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...undergraduates prepare to vote this week on a referendum about the University's South African investment policy, the African National Congress (ANC) reissued its call yesterday for Harvard to divest completely from companies that do business in the racially divided state...
...time when elements of the South African security forces have brought a reign of terror on South Africa's black population and the South African government seems unwilling or unable to rein these forces in," the statement reads, "we call on Harvard University to completely divest its portfolio of companies doing business in South Africa...
...statement, which was released yesterday by the ANC's American affiliate, takes note of recent reforms by the Pretoria government but advocates that Harvard divest in order to accelerate change...
...Corporation took ethical issues into consideration when it decided to divest from tobacco companies. We believe that investing in South Africa is at least as reprehensible as producing cigarettes...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee insists that Harvard should divest because anti-apartheid South Africans want us to. Indeed, many prominent Black South Africans (including Harvard Overseer Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu) favor sanctions. No one really knows whether a majority of Blacks agree; public opinion surveys have produced conflicting results and are confounded by the fact that it is illegal in South Africa to advocate sanctions...