Leaflet advertising the book "Automating Apartheid: U.S. Computer Exports to South Africa and the Arms Embargo" by NARMIC (National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex), a project of the American Friends Service Committee. The leaflet mentions Control Data, IBM, TRW, and Positronics. Despite the arms embargo and restrictions on sales to South Africa, U.S. multinationals continue to supply the Pretoria regime and outfit the country's military-industrial complex. The book outlines the strategic significance of South Africa's computer industry and the U.S. role in its growth, examines how U.S. technology is streamlining South African government operations, uncovers exports to local...
Leaflet advertising the book "Automating Apartheid: U.S. Computer Exports to South Africa and the Arms Embargo" by NARMIC (National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex), a project of the American Friends Service Committee. The leaflet mentions Control Data, IBM, TRW, and Positronics. Despite the arms embargo and restrictions on sales to South Africa, U.S. multinationals continue to supply the Pretoria regime and outfit the country's military-industrial complex. The book outlines the strategic significance of South Africa's computer industry and the U.S. role in its growth, examines how U.S. technology is streamlining South African government operations, uncovers exports to local weapons makers and the security industry, includes a directory of major U.S.-supplied government computer instillations, profiles U.S. computer multinationals in South Africa and operating through local distributors, takes a critical look at the U.S. arms embargo and how it is enforced, and includes extensive documentation. The leaflet includes quotations from Representative William Grey, III and Kassahun Checole, Department of African Studies, Rutgers University. • OTHER RESOURCES ON SOUTH AFRICA FROM NARMIC • NARMIC AUDIO-VISUAL RESOURCES • TO ORDER
