GC31 Disinvestment (1986D373)

THAT this 31st General Council:

  1. INSTRUCT the Investment Committee through the Division of Finance to divest the church of all investments in corporations and companies having direct equity investment* in South Africa until power is shared democratically among all peoples of South Africa; and

  2. URGE the trustees of the pension plan to take similar action.

* defined as a company or corporation which directly owns shares in operations carried on in South Africa.

 

GC31 1986 ROP, pp. 141-142

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