Word: mandelas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday--Commencement speaker Winnie Mandela tells an audience of 30,000 that the United States must wake up to reality and stop coddling corporate pseudo-moralists. "You mean there are actually Black South Africans who want divestment?" one Harvard Corporation member is heard to murmur in astonishment. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 says, "I think the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility will be reconsidering its position shortly...
...Friday--The new Black majority-ruled South African government (renamed "Azania") appoints its first Prime Minister, Nelson Mandela...
...Pretoria has seemed reluctant to move against her. But last week's speech represented perhaps her boldest act, and could prompt the government to retaliate. Two days after her speech, Mandela, reportedly suffering from exhaustion and the recurrence of a minor heart problem, was admitted to a private nursing home. It seemed unlikely that the government would act before she was released...
...sort of defiance that Mandela displayed seemed to be in the air last week. The newly formed Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) also flouted the government by calling on foreign-based companies to divest themselves of South African holdings. "While Western companies argue that this will bring suffering to blacks, COSATU says that black people have been suffering since 1652, when the Boers first came to this country," said Elijah Barayi, president of the group. It was one of the most radical calls to action made publicly by the head of a legally recognized black organization since...
...federation's ambitious agenda includes the call for foreign divestment and nationalization of major industries, the release of Nelson Mandela, the withdrawal of government troops from the black townships and the abolition of the pass laws. Barayi said the federation would lead a campaign for blacks to burn their passbooks publicly if the law is not revoked within six months. That threat prompted grim reminders of the last widespread protest against the & pass laws, which ended with the deaths of 67 people after police opened fire on a demonstration in the black township of Sharpeville in 1960. The A.N.C., which...