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Article: SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS LEADER URGES WHITES TO VOTE FOR EQUALITY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 4, 1987
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JOHANNESBURG - The chairman of South Africa's most powerful
corporation yesterday urged whites to vote this week for candidates
committed to racial equality.
Gavin Relly, chairman of the Anglo American Corp., a mining
and banking conglomerate, said in a newspaper column that the
governing National Party has turned away from reform and should be
defeated in Wednesday's elections for the white chamber of
parliament.
"The privileged white electorate, in my view, should support
as far as possible candidates who have the courage to move forward
to a policy of putting all South Africans first, irrespective of
race, color or creed," Relly wrote in the Sunday Times, the
country's largest ...