Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
HARVARD LAST WEEK divested of $1 million of its, $565 million investment in corporations doing business in South Africa. Harvard decided to divest because the corporation in question had failed to comply with the University's system of moral guidelines based primarily on the Sullivan and Tutu Principles...
...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...
...course, Harvard's policy of intensive dialogue would signify very little if the moral reforms it calls for were not broad, necessary and realistic. But we believe they are. When associates of the Corporation conduct dialogues with portfolio companies, they demand compliance with both the Tutu Principles and the Sullivan Principles. Together with the University's standard guidelines for operations in South Africa, these principles require companies to: do less than 50 percent of their business in the country; pay laborers equally for equal work, institute a minimum wage; end workplace segregation; invest "massively" in education reforms and in community...
...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...