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...should come as a surprise to no one that a Harvard portfolio company has played a key role in bolstering South Africa's illegal presence in Namibia. According to its most recently published reports, Harvard owns more than $2.5 million worth of shares in AMAX, Inc., the U.S. mining multinational. AMAX, in turn, owns one-third of Tsumeb Corporation, the copper mining company that employs more African labor in Namibia than any other firm. In a recent annual report, AMAX bragged that Tsumeb has finally trained a few of its 5000 African workers to fill such semi-skilled posts...
...WORLD community must condemn the South African government for rejecting the United Nations plan for an internationally supervised transition to independence in Namibia, the miner-rich territory South Africa has illegally occupied in defiance of U.N. ruling since 1966. Last week, in an 11th-hour decision, retiring South African Prime Minister John Vorster announced that South Africa would conduct its own independence election in the territory, rather than allow U.N. troops and civilian personnel to supervise the election of a transitional Namibian government...
...allowed to go unchallenged, this latest South African demonstration of contempt for international standards of justice can only result in the election of a Pretoria-controlled puppet regime and the continued political and economic subjugation of Namibia's black majority...
...self-interested nature of the Western diplomatic role: the five NATO powers who attempted to act as honest brokers between SWAPO and Pretoria stand to gain the most by securing a peaceful transition to independence. These countries' corporations mine and market the vast stores of precious minerals in Namibia. And for 12 years, these countries, led by the U.S., did the most to undercut U.N. efforts to loosen South Africa's stranglehold over Namibia...
Justice Marthinus Steyn, the administrator general of Namibia, said elections for a 50-member constitutional assembly will be held from...