Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enter South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--anti-apartheid leader and newly elected member of the Board...
...Tutu's relationship to the other overseers was more than a bit tenuous. He had been nominated for the Board by an upstart activist group, and won despite earnest efforts by several Harvard officials to block his election...
...there was one person who knew how best Harvard should react to the changes in South Africa, it was Tutu. Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to help topple the racist South African regime, and had only days before spoken with South Africa's president, F.W. de Klerk...
...Overseers asked Tutu to speak about South Africa. He did, and said afterwords that Harvard should adopt a new divestment plan. Under his plan, Harvard would pledge to sell off its remaining stock unless South Africa followed up on its early reform gestures and substantially dismantled the apartheid system...
That, he said, was how Harvard could best advance the cause of freedom for South Africa's Blacks. Tutu said in a press conference later that he sensed "momentum" and "enthusiasm" for changing Harvard's policy towards south Africa...