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Mailing from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to all Harvard/Radcliffe Anumni/ae asking people to vote for the five pro-divestment candidates for the Board of Overseers as their way of showing support for the struggle against apartheid. The letter says last year, you did me a great honor of electing me to a six-year term on the Harvard Board of Overseers; we have made great progress in the year here in South Africa toward ending the apartheid system, thanks at least in part to the pressure brought to bear on the South African government by men and women of conscience around the world; but the struggle is far from won. The mailing says as a great moral and educational leader throughout the world, Harvard University must publicly support the move toward a negotiated end of apartheid by announcing that if President De Klerk of South Africa does not meet all conditions necessary for serious, non-reversible negotiations by May 1, 1990m it will divest itself completely of all investments in firms doing business in South Africa. [Note: This item was apparently copied and distributed by Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid.]

African Activist Archive

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