Talk:Disinvestment from South Africa

message: The criticism section could be further improved.  --CGM1980 19:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, as I read more about the Sullivan Principles, I see now that they really don't belong in the criticism section.  Sullivan did criticize simplistic divestment, but he advocated a form of selective disinvestment based on whether the behavior of individual South African companies met a certain ethical standard.  --CGM1980 21:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

text: The connection to the disinvestment campaign appears to be as follows: many organizations in the United States participating in the disinvestment campaign used the Sullivan Principles as criteria in determining whether they should disinvest from a particular company operating in South Africa.  It was only if the company in question had not accepted or signed on to the Sullivan Principles was disinvestment undertaken.  --CGM1980 21:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Out of time for the time being, but the solution is to add a new major section called "The Sullivan Principles (1977)" between the UN and US campaign sections.  It appears to be significant development in that it impacted the perceived legitimacy/fairness of the campaign by the wider public.  --CGM1980 21:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

text: To do note to self: a brief introduction/summary section giving readers a quick overview of the whole history is missing.  --CGM1980 21:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Future work

message: The intro does not explain what happened, or summarise the rest of the article. The intro should briefly define what Disinvestment involved.Lester 22:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro does not explain what happened 

message: Is there any information on what influence the "disinvestment"-campaign had on poverty and crime in South Africa? --41.17.4.143 (talk) 19:02, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime and Poverty 

message: The table given in the University campuses section for "the numbers year over year for educational institutions fully or partially divesting from South Africa" isn't clear whether the numbers are cumulative:
                              	1984	1987	1988
Number of institutes divesting	53  	128 	155
--Chriswaterguy talk 07:08, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers for disinvestment -  

message: I think that if Mangosuthu Buthelezi's views are mentioned, it should be clarified that referring to him as "anti-apartheid" is controversial. After all, he was a prominent figure in the bantustan system of the apartheid regime, and his position regarding apartheid was ambiguous, to say the least.--84.108.212.141 (talk) 08:37, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-Apartheid opposition 

message: Is this article only about the US sanctions on Apartheid? If not, in Ireland in 1984 a group of workers in the largest retailer, Dunnes Stores, refused to handle South African produce. They lost their jobs, went on strike, won public support and by 1987 directly because of them Ireland passed sanctions on South Africa. More information here. 89.234.102.199 (talk) 09:13, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Ireland?

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message: There seems to be an excessive amount of material promoting the role of Ramon Sevilla. I was active in the divestment movement at Berkley in 1984-1986, and I don't recall ever hearing of Sevilla. I'm sure he made important contributions, but this seems way out of proportion and possibly a case of self-promotion.--76.169.116.244 (talk) 02:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed—since no one has stepped forward to cite any RS, and I'm unable to find much of anything about this chap, I am going to edit to remove the multiple references. Ekpyros (talk) 17:59, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: over-emphasis on Ramon Sevilla

message: NightHeron (talk) 18:24, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: GOCE copy-editing