Sentences with phrase «companies during apartheid»

Eminent bishop and Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called on businesses to cut ties with the fossil fuels industry, in the same way as they did with South African companies during apartheid.

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DiNapoli and previous comptrollers have used the fund as a vehicle for social change in the past, divesting funds from South Africa during the apartheid era, and from tobacco companies, as well as freezing and then ending investments in guns manufacturers after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Born in South Africa but now living in the U.K., Wendy McLean writes candidly of her experiences as an employee of a white - owned and white - run company in SA during and after the apartheid years.

According to Davies, it was known during the apartheid years that the computer company ICL, then British - owned, sold the South African government the computers that made its pass system workable.

Unlike the divestment project initiated against companies doing business in South Africa during the apartheid era, this project can rest not alone on grounds of morality or an investor's chartered purpose, but on financial grounds as well.

I was a college freshman in 1984 and was part of a takeover of the Tufts University administration building to demand divestment from endowment companies doing business in South Africa during the apartheid regime.