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Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org In Good Faith: Canadian Churches Against Apartheid Author/Creator Pratt, Renate Contributor Tutu, Archbishop Desmond M. (preface), Hutchinson, Roger (foreword) Publisher Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion Date 1997 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Canada, South Africa Coverage (temporal) 1975-1990 Source ES Reddy Rights By kind permission of Renate Pratt and Wilfred Laurier University Press. Description Part one, 1975-80: Prelude to action - 1. Prelude to Action, 2. Canadian business ties. Part two, 1981-84 - 3. Apartheid and the Canadian government, 4. From acceptance to Unease: Canadian corporate responses to Apartheid, 1981-84. Part three, 1985-87 - 5. The struggle intensifies, 6. Canada's anti-apartheid initiatives, 1985-86. Part four, 1987-90 - 7. The taskforce and continuing Canadian corporate involvement in South Africa, 8. The long road back from sancions, 1987, 9. The taskforce and the abandonment of Canada's sanctions policy, 1988-90, 10. Final reflections. Selected bibliography. Index. Format extent 375 pages (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.canp1b10040 http://www.aluka.org KJi KJi Yv ,lä - 11 Comparative Ethics Series / Collection d'Ethique Compar6e: LV 44 4I Iq IOT rac G. S. 14 Ok Tw-OC1414P. Comparative Ethics Series / Collection d'Ethique Compar~e As Religious Studies in its various branches has spread out in recent years, it has met with a newly emergent discipline: Comparative Ethics as the study of moralities as cultural systems, rather than as the philosophical investigation of particular moral issues. To study a morality as a dynamic whole in its social nature and functioning requires a context in which other instances of a comparable kind are considered. Moral action-guides and religious action-guides have historically been brought together in mixed, moral-religious or religious- moral systems. The different paths followed by moralities as cultural systerns in the varying contexts demand comparative study. The series embraces three kinds of studies: (1) methodological studies, which will endeavour to elaborate and discuss principles, concepts and models for the new discipline; (2) studies which aim at deepening our knowledge of the nature and functioning, the scope and content of particular moral systems, such as the Islamic, the Hindu, the Christian and so on; (3) studies of a directly comparative kind, which bring differing moral systems or elements of systems into relationship. GENERAL EDITOR: Paul Bowlby Saint Mary's University (Halifax) ADVISORY BOARD: Charles Adams McGill University (Montreal) Ernest Best University of Toronto Antonio R. Gualtieri Carleton University (Ottawa) Roger Hutchinson University of Toronto Patrick Kerans Dalhousie University (Halifax) Jack Lightstone Concord ia University (Montreal) David Little University of Virginia (Charlottesvi lie) Thierty Maertens Universit6 Lawvl (Qudbec) Ronald W. Neufeldt University of Calgary David Roy Bioethical Institute (Montreal) Max T Stackhouse Andover Newton Theological School (Newton Centre, MA) COMPARATIVE ETHICS Volume 4 In Good Faith Canadian Churches Against Apartheid Renate Pratt Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion / Corporation Caadienne des Sciences ReligiCuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1997 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Pratt, Renate In good Paith : Canadian churches against apartheid (Comparative ethics series; v. 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88920-280-X I. Apartheid - Religious aspects - Christianity. 2. Apartheid- Moral and ethical aspects. 3. Social responsibility of business Canada. 4. Social responsibility of business- South Africa. 5. Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility. 6. Church and industry - Canada, 7. Church and industry South Africa. 8. Christianity and politics - Canada. 1. Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion. It. Title. Ill. Series. HF5388.P721997 261.8'5 C96-931980-0 © 1997 Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion / Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religicuses Cover design by Leslie Macredie using a photograph by Paul Weinberg entitled Soweto Unrest, 1985 e Printed in Canada All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyrights hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means-graphic, electronic or mechanical -without the prior written permission of' the publisher. Any request for photocopying, recording, taping or reproducing in information storage and retrieval systems of any part of this book shall be directed in writing to the Canadian Reprography Collective, 214 King Street West, Suite 312, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S6. Order from: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 %jontents Preface by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu vii Foreword by Roger Hutchinson ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One 1975-80 1. Prelude to Action 7 2. Canadian Business Ties 23 Part Two 1981-84 3. Apartheid and the Canadian Government 65 4. From Acceptance to Unease: Canadian Corporate l.espoIscs to Apartheid, 1981-84 97 Part Three 1985-87 5. The Struggle Intensifies 135 6. Canada's Anti-Apartheid Initiatives, 1985-86 187 Part Four 1987-90 7. The Taskforce and Continuing Canadian Corporate Involvement in South Africa 221 8. The Long Road Back from Sanctions, 1987 263 9. The Taskforce and the Abandonment of Canada's Sanctions Policy, 1988-90 291 10. Final Reflections 337 Selected Bibliography 347 Index 356 Preface We have experienced nothing short of a miracle in South Africa as we have seen apartheid disappear from the scene; as we have watched incredulous, the long lines of South Africans taking part in their first democratic elections; the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the first-ever democratically chosen president of this new South Africa and the installation of a governmenit of national unity. We have scored a spectacular victory over one of the most vicious systems the world has known, as vicious as Nazism ever was. Its perpetrators had sought to control every aspect of the lives of the victims of this totally evil system and the perpetrators were not averse to using the most violent and repressive measures to enforce their hegemonyw-therc were bannings that condemned people to a twilight existence as prisoners at their own expense, when a gathering meant one other person and they were not permitted to attend a gatheringi-therc were detentions without trial for lengthy periods and people often died mysteriously in those detentions, as in the notorious brutal murder of Steve Biko. People were incarcerated fbr having had the audacity to imagine that they too were human beings with inalienable rights-such as the Mandelas, the Sisulus and others. Many others went into exile, and there was the constant harassment, the public vilification of those who opposed apartheid. This was a powerfid system supported by many Western governments because the perpetrators were White and the victims were largely Black and because this South African government was smart enough to exploit the often strange obsession with Communism by its declaration that it was the last bastion of Western civilisation against soviet communist expansionism. viii In Good Faith The struggle against this powerful regime was rough, but we have notched up our spectacular victory over the injustice and oppression of apartheid. But our victory would have been totally impossible without the remarkable and courageous support and commitment of many in the international community. We could not have made it without the imposition of sanctions against the apartheid monster. It is a great privilege to be able to say thank you very much to you all who supported us. Our victory is your victory. Renate Pratt's book is a ringing account of how one group in Canada struggled to galvanise Canadian public opinion to pressure business and government to take a moral stand against apartheid. It was never easy to do this. We can read what it cost the anti-apartheid stalwarts whose names must be written in letters of gold in any authentic history of the struggle for justice, peace, democracy and reconciliation in South Africa. I am honoured to have been asked to write this short preface and to urge many to read this fascinating account. Goodness, justice, love, peace-these ultimately prevail against their awful counterparts because this is a moral universe and God is in charge. The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu kForeword When the Centre for the Study of Religion in Canada received a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. to study the social justice activities of the United Church of Canada and its ecumenical partners, a topic with obvious relevance for our project was the Canadian churches' role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Our initial hope was that Renate Pratt would write a background paper and give the keynote address at a consultation on this topic.