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Pamphlet by NARMIC (National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex), a program of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) with a list of U.S. companies with investments in South Africa. The list includes data on: U.S. Parent Company, Subsidiary or Affiliate in South Africa with Location, Assets of Parent in South Africa (1983), Product/Service, Sales of Parent in South Africa (1983), and Number of Employees. An introduction discusses the role of the nearly 300 U.S. corporations that are involved in the South African economy and that benefit from and sustain the system of apartheid, which control up to 33% of the motor vehicles market, 44% of the oil market, and 48% of the computer market. The pamphlet says a classified State Department cable leaked to the press in 1983 put the total level of U.S. financial involvement in South Africa, including subsidiaries, loans and investments, at $14.6 billion. The pamphlet discusses General Motors (GM), Sperry Corp., Mohawk Data Sciences Corp., South Africa's nuclear and coal-to-oil facilities, Fluor Corporation, IBM, Control Data Corp., Amdahl Corp., the Sullivan Principles, Reverend Leon Sullivan, the National Supplies Procurement Act, the Defence Act, black workers, and solidarity.

African Activist Archive

INVESTING IN APARTHEID: A GUIDE TO U.S. CORPORATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA

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