Committee for Divestment from South Africa
Committee for Divestment from South Africa
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Duration: October 1977-?
The Committee for Divestment from South Africa, a student group at Brandeis University, was formed with the goal of moving the University to sell its stock holdings in companies doing business in South Africa. Shelly Pitterman, who graduated in 1979, was one of the students who founded the organization and often was the spokesperson. In 1979 Brandeis...
The Committee for Divestment from South Africa, a student group at Brandeis University, was formed with the goal of moving the University to sell its stock holdings in companies doing business in South Africa. Shelly Pitterman, who graduated in 1979, was one of the students who founded the organization and often was the spokesperson. In 1979 Brandeis partially divested from companies doing business in South Africa. Students were not satisfied and demanded that Brandeis totally divest. Brandeis students continued to be involved in anti-apartheid activity into the late 1980s, working with the New England Students Against Apartheid and with the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (BCLSA) on supporting divestment by the state of Massachusetts. It is unknown for how long the Committee for Divestment from South Africa continued and how long the anti-apartheid work was carried out in the Committee's name. (Source: "Brandeis Students Urge South African Divestiture" by J. Wyatt Emmerich, The Harvard Crimson, November 4, 1977; Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter, American Committee on Africa [various issues].)
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