Trade and Investment in South Africa
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official1720
- Date
- 1975 June
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Act 52
- Mover
- Rt. Rev. T.D.B. Ragg
- Seconder
- Very Rev. M.G. Peers
- Text of motion
- "That this General Synod requests the primate and the National Executive Council to seek an ecumenical consultation with the Cabinet to request that Canada:
- Withdraw immediately its preferential sugar agreements with South Africa and cease to purchase its sugar.
- Withdraw immediately government trade commissioners in South Africa.
- Immediately recognize the legal jurisdiction of the United Nations Council for Namibia and prohibit any Canadian corporation from continuing operations there without recognizing the authority and jurisdiction of the United Nations Council."
- CARRIED Act 52
- Subjects
- Apartheid - South Africa
- Apartheid - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Economic sanctions - South Africa
- Economic sanctions - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Boycott - Religous aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Canada - Foreign relations - South Africa
- Canada - Foreign relations - Namibia
- Sugar trade - South Africa
- South Africa - Politics and government - 1961-1978
- South Africa - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Namibia - Politics and government - 1946-1990
- Namibia - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada