Bob Hawke Quotes About Apartheid

• I led the fight here against apartheid as President of the ACTU, including particularly the Springbok tour in 1971. And that led to the banning of the South African cricket tour which had been scheduled - that was something that I sorted out with Sir Donald Bradman. That was interesting.

  Bob Hawke

  Fighting, Interesting, President

  Fuente: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

• Asumí el liderazgo dentro de la Commonwealth en la lucha contra el apartheid. Conté con la gran ayuda de Brian Mulroney, Primer Ministro de Canadá, [y] Rajiv Gandhi, cuando se convirtió en Primer Ministro de la India. Y hubo sanciones comerciales.

  Bob Hawke

  Lucha, India, Canadá

  Fuente: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

• Fuimos [ con Brian Mulroney y Rajiv Gandhi] a la reunión de Canadá [la CHOGM de Vancouver de 1987] y allí les dije que las sanciones no estaban funcionando; sólo las estaban reventando. Y me pareció que una forma de acabar con el régimen del apartheid sería imponer una sanción eficaz a las inversiones.

  Bob Hawke

  Vancouver, Sería, Canadá

  Fuente: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

• I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Running, New York

  Fuente: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

• I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, People, Economic

  Fuente: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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