Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only one year after South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu was voted onto the governing board, not one person nominated by Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) was elected to fill any of the five open seats...
...Tutu, who directs a South African refugee scholarship fund in New York City, said at a reception before the event that her government's recent agreement to negotiate with the African National Congress (ANC) and to release ANC leader Nelson Mandela was in in large part a result of international pressure...
...although Harvard, in its refusal to divest of its South African-related stocks, may not have been part of this pressure in the past, Tutu said it was not yet too late for the University to take this initiative against the apartheid government...
...time to back down," Tutu said. "Apartheid is still firmly in place...
Speaking after Tutu, journalist Donald J. Woods--whose friendship with the late Black South African leader Stephen Biko is the subject of Cry Freedom--said the symbolic effect of Harvard's divestment would be even more important than its impact on the country's economy...