Recent North American Corporate Activity in Namibia

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Edition

NS-18

Creator

James Cason; Southern Africa Committee

Place Created

Washington, DC, United States

Date

November 29 - December 2, 1982

Type of Item

Conference Presentation

Length/duration

13 pages

Description

Paper presented at the International Seminar on The Role of Transnational Corporations in Namibia, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, DC, November 29 - December 2, 1982. Paper on North American investment in Namibia an the Namibian economy. The paper says in 1980 American direct investment in Namibia was larger than US direct investment in Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, or Zimbabwe. American direct investment in Namibia is heavily concentrated in a few companies, with Newmont Mining Corporation and AMAX Inc. controlling by far the largest share. The paper says by far the largest recent increase in North American corporate involvement in Namibia came in December 198 when Tsumeb Corporation...

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Publisher

American Committee on Africa

Organization

American Committee on Africa
Southern Africa Committee

Coverage Africa

Namibia
South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

This item was digitized for Aluka, which made it available to the African Activist Archive. See: http://www.aluka.org/

Rights Management

Used by permission of Africa Action (successor to the American Committee on Africa).

Collection

Africa Action Archive