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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Disinvestment Helpful to South Africa?
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 18:42:17 EDT
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> On a related note, I am looking for references to printed material stating
> that the people of South Africa want American companies out.
> 
> Thanks --
> -- 
> Melinda Shore
> University of Chicago Computation Center
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I can't give you any printed references but I can tell you about two
people I have talked to in reference to this subject.  The first was a 
black South African artist who told me that American companies had
made things better for blacks because they were so greedy that they
would hire people based on ability --- they couldn't afford to discriminate.

The second person I talked to was an American missionary working in
Southwest Africa (or Nambibia, or whatever you want to call it).  While
he had to be careful what he said while he was there (to avoid being
thrown out of the country), he indicated that his perception was that
American companies didn't have the "old boy network" approach that
South African companies did, and tended to hire based on ability, not
on race, putting South African companies at a competitive disadvantage.

This, after all, is the original reason that the South African government
instituted apartheid by law --- social pressure alone wasn't enough.