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PRETORIA, South Africa--South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster announced yesterday he is resigning for health reasons after 12 years as South Africa's uncontested political leader...
...degree, that is changing. Because industrial peace is so vital to the white supremacist government of Prime Minister John Vorster, labor inspectors seldom object to the bending of apartheid rules even in South African-owned plants. Since the presence of the multinationals is much valued by the regime, they enjoy even more latitude in defying apartheid...
Many critics call for an outright withdrawal from South Africa on the theory that a sudden exodus would undermine the Vorster regime. Says Franklin H. Williams, a black activist who was U.S. ambassador to Ghana in the late 1960s: "What American companies have done so far has been essentially cosmetic. The basic inhumanity of life for blacks in South Africa continues unabated." The New York-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of several Roman Catholic orders and Protestant denominations, urges a U.S. withdrawal unless, as Director Timothy Smith puts it, the government "takes steps to give full political...
...away. The South African tragedy, however, extends far beyond the borders of the bantustans such as Soweto; in fact, through American companies with operations there, it reaches all the way back to investors in this country, up to and including Harvard. The presence of these U.S. dollars propping up Vorster's government--directly or even indirectly--mocks the concepts of justice and equality...
LAST SPRING, despite the largest out-pouring of student political sentiment in several years, the Harvard Corporation refused to divest itself of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. It also declined to get rid of its stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponser shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...