Word: vilakazi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very necessary for the western world in general to make a pronouncement on the abhorrance of apartheid," said Themba Vilakazi, co-coordinator of the South African Support Coalition of Massachusetts (SASCOM), an organization which helped to draft the bill...
...This kind of legislation is good because it really affects the bottom line for businesses--dollars and cents," Vilakazi said. "We support sanctions and anything that makes it tougher for companies to do business as usual," he said...
Black South African leaders noticed when Harvard partially divested in October of some of its investments in companies that do business in that country. Commenting on the growing company pullout of South Africa, Themba Vilakazi, a U.S.-based representative of the African National Congress, mentioned the Harvard divestment...
Speaking to the Associated Press, Vilakazi said that the $159 million divestment wouldn't bring about any noticeable change in South Africa. "But the announcement itself adds to the climate and helps achieve the goal of isolating South Africa," said the U.S. spokesman for the outlawed Black nationalist group...
Harvard's move "is significant in the sensethat it is in the right direction. We just need topush them much further," Vilakazi said...