IBM Update: Still Computing Apartheid

ICCR Brief

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Edition

Vol. 16 No. 5

Creator

Richard Leonard; Interfaith Center on Corporate Responisbility

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

1987

Type of Item

Pamphlet

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

The document explains how IBM, the leading supplier of computers to the South African government and major corporations there, has sold its subsidiary to Information Services Management in order to reduce its political profile, while "there will be no change in the supply of IBM products," according to the former manager of IBM South Africa, quoted in an ad in South African newspapers. The document recounts opposition to IBM's involvement in South Africa, beginning with the Black Workers Alliance, founded in 1969 by black U.S. IBM employees. Eleven church-sponsored stockholder resolutions have been filed with IBM. [A version of this document was previous published by the Public...

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Publisher

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Organization

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.

Collection

Private collection of David Wiley and Christine Root