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Corporate Philanthropy
Karen Paul
Corporate philanthropy, in particular its impact in South Africa, has been the topic of my research for the past five years, so my response to Samuel Lipman'ments will be framed in that context.
. companies came together in the late 1970s to develop a program which would demonstrate their moral righteousness in maintaining investments and operations in South Africa. They were accused of supporting apartheid by doing business there, the demand for sanctions was escalating, and activist groups were anized and mobilized to put pressure on multinational corporations to withdraw from South Africa.
Multinational corporations were reluctant to with-draw from South Africa. There were several reasons for this reluctance. South Africa, with its rich mineral wealth and its modem industrial infrastructure, and its white rulers, was fortable and economically rewarding place to do business. Maintaining a government that would support . interests in the Southern Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, and continue to supply the United States with a number of strategic materials, and serve as a bulwark munism, seemed of vital strategic importance to many government and corporate officials at the time. And many corporate leaders sincerely believed that economic growth created by multinationals would help blacks to grow in skills and productivity,