Statement by Anti-Apartheid Committee Chairman on Withdrawal of Polaroid Corporation from South Africa

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Edition

GA/AP/767

Creator

Leslie O. Harriman; United Nations

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

November 23, 1977

Type of Item

Press Release

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Statement by Leslie Harriman discusses the Polaroid "experiment" to improve the condition of black workers and to stop the supply of its products to the Government for use in implementing the pass laws. After receiving evidence from the American Committee on Africa that its agent, Frank and Hirsch, has continued to secretly supply Polaroid equipment to the South African military headquarters and the "Bantu Reference Bureau," the Polaroid Corporation has now cut off all shipments to South Africa. The statement notes that the evidence was supplied to the American Committee on Africa by Indres Naidoo, grandson of the adopted son of Mahatma Gandhi who comes from a family that...

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Publisher

United Nations

Organization

American Committee on Africa
United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Collection

George M. Houser Africa collection, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections