African Labor and Social Change Under South African Law: Some Comments for Considering the Role of Foreign Corporations in the Republic of South Africa
African Labor and Social Change Under South African Law: Some Comments for Considering the Role of Foreign Corporations in the Republic of South Africa
Memorandum by David Wiley, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University (MSU), to the MSU Board of Trustees expressing support for divestment from companies doing business in South Africa and responding to Leon Weaver. Wiley says U.S. academic institutions need accurate information available concerning South African law, working conditions, African opinion, and the role of the foreign corporations. The statement by Professor Leon Weaver of the Department of Criminal Justice contains serious inaccuracy and errors and is misleading about those who have questioned the role of foreign corporations in South Africa. The memorandum points out that signatories to the Sullivan Principles continue...
Memorandum by David Wiley, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University (MSU), to the MSU Board of Trustees expressing support for divestment from companies doing business in South Africa and responding to Leon Weaver. Wiley says U.S. academic institutions need accurate information available concerning South African law, working conditions, African opinion, and the role of the foreign corporations. The statement by Professor Leon Weaver of the Department of Criminal Justice contains serious inaccuracy and errors and is misleading about those who have questioned the role of foreign corporations in South Africa. The memorandum points out that signatories to the Sullivan Principles continue to supply petroleum products to the South African military, and via South Africa, to the Rhodesian rebellion; other corporate signatories supply computer technology for the systems of monitoring and control of the African population, vehicles for police and military, components for the complex military technologies, and tax revenue with which the regime can enlarge its budgets for military, police, and bureaucracies of control. The memorandum discusses General Motors, Ford (South Africa), the National Council of Churches and South African Council of Churches, the pass system, the Mines and Works Act of 1911, the Bantu Building Workers Act, the Industrial Conciliation Act of 1956, the Bantu Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act of 1953, Bantustans, and Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, • I. Social Change under South African Law • II. South African Wages • A. Increasing Disparity of African and White Incomes • III. Black Opinion • A. Mr. Donald Woods, former editor, Daily Dispatch, East London, South Africa • • B. The Christian Institute of South Africa, Statement, 1976 • C. The Late Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Nobel Prize Winner • D. Mr. Tsietsi Mashinini, exiled President, Soweto Students Representative Council • E. South African Student Organization, Policy Statement, 1972 • F. Mr. Oliver Tambo, Acting President-General, African National Congress of South Africa • G. Mr. Donald Woods, (Former Editor, East London Daily Dispatch) Interview • IV. Alternative University Actions toward Corporations • FOOTNOTES
