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Why U.S. Corporations should Get Out of South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Ann Seidman
Ann Seidman*
Affiliation:
Brown University
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In evaluating the consequences of the $1.7 billion currently invested by U.S. corporations in South Africa, the issue is distinctly not whether or not the U.S. firms involved have adopted the Sullivan Principles. Those principles, purportedly designed to ensure upgrading and equal pay for blacks, are in reality little more than a smokescreen. Behind their rhetoric, U.S. transnational corporations continue to help South Africa build up its military-industry machinery to perpetuate oppression of the majority of black workers.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 9 , Issue 1-2 , Spring/Summer 1979 , pp. 37 - 41
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979 

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