By Renate Pratt
looking back it truly is tricky to just accept that Western democracies have implicitly supported, or a minimum of tolerated, the legalized approach of white supremacy in South Africa referred to as apartheid. Renate Pratt’s new booklet, In solid Faith, explains why the Christian church buildings have been one of the first to publicly protest, and why they supplied such cogent and made up our minds foreign aid for the fight opposed to apartheid.
The Taskforce at the church buildings and company accountability is a coalition of Christian church buildings that for almost 20 years was once one in all Canada’s prime anti-apartheid advocates. because the first co-ordinator of this Taskforce, Renate Pratt was once on the centre of the early anti-apartheid tasks in Canada and for that reason is ready to offer a transparent and actual view.
The ebook lines the heritage of exchanges among the Taskforce and successive ministers and senior civil servants of the dep. of exterior Affairs. It information the reluctant and vulnerable responses provided by way of the Canadian executive and enterprise neighborhood correct as much as the time of Nelson Mandela’s liberate from legal.
In strong Faith could be of specific curiosity to Canadian Christians interested in ecumenical co-operation and with the social and political dimensions in their religion. both, it's going to attract these drawn to the effect of public curiosity organisations on public coverage or the connection among politics and enterprise pursuits.
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In August 1980, during an international seminar, we learned that the Canadian Business Ties 39 London-based Orion Bank—in which the Royal Bank of Canada held a 20 percent share—had recently participated in a major Eurobond purchase for the Standard Bank of South Africa. At issue here was not the Royal Bank but rather the beneficiary—the Standard Bank of South Africa—with its connections to the South African military establishment. In June 1980 Ian MacKenzie, chair of the Standard Bank, had joined Prime Minister Botha’s Defense Advisory Board.
24 During a tense exchange we pressed Alcan about Saunders’ membership on the Defence Advisory Board and suggested that it was likely that Hulett Aluminium was sufficiently defence-related to be designated a “Key Point” industry. A half nod from Bob Rosane confirmed this. We began to feel very uncomfortable. Here we had been accepting, in good faith, Alcan’s claim that its South African investment was a “liberalizing influence” when it had in fact opted some time previous to locate itself within Prime Minister Botha’s inner circle.
Some bank executives made a distinction between one South African government department and another. 3 During this particular discussion, we tried to discover whether the bank had overall lending criteria that would preclude, as a matter of principle, specific loan applicants. ” We had scored a few debating points and had learned more about the psychology of bankers, but we had not made any discernible impact. Taskforce members began to participate in annual meetings of shareholders in the winter of 1975–76, seeking to inform their fellow shareholders of their concern.