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“100 Years of Anglo American” – Part 1

https://southafrica.angloamerican.com/~/media/Files/A/Anglo-American-Group/South-Africa/about-us/centenary-hub-docs/centenary-hub-city-press.pdf
Below are excerpts

A popular pamphlet distributed in mass democratic movement circles in the 1980s carried a graphic cartoon that demonstrated the influence of Anglo American on the lives of South Africans. 

It showed how a worker would wake up in the morning and eat a breakfast containing ingredients supplied by an Anglo American-controlled company, get into a car, taxi or bus that contained components made by a firm in which the corporation had interests’ and work for a company with links to 44 Main Street. His lunch and supper would also contain elements of Anglo American, as would the beer he drank to wind down after work. 

The corporation had a place in virtually every aspect of his day. 

In those days, Anglo American was the stuff of myth and legend. To some, it was the face of the capitalist system that went hand in hand with apartheid.

-Anglo American was a major catalyst for the BEE project that helped to create a wave of black industrialists. The leadership and staff of Anglo American now reflects South Africa. Interventions in education, health, entrepreneurship and social housing have had a major impact on the development of the new society. 

The Anglo American story is the South African story. It is a story that has traversed epochs of South African history: from colonialism and apartheid to the liberation struggle, civil uprisings and the birth of democracy to the cementing of a nonracial society. It is a story that can be told through the lens of two world wars, a cold war and civil conflict


[Gavin] Relly began to engage in serious political dialogue with the ANC leadership in exile and with Nelson Mandela while he was still incarcerated in Pollsmoor Prison. The undertaking for which Relly became most renowned was his leadership of a delegation of South African businessmen, in defiance of the orders of the National Party, to meet with the exiled ANC leadership in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1985