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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...
...There is no hope in this country until the government talks to the real leaders," Bishop Tutu told the cheering throng after Zindzi's reading. "You have just heard one of those leaders...
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...