Renfrew Christie interviewed by Ruendree Govender May 27, 2005 Cape Town, South Africa.
"One of the legs of the struggle that liberated our country was mobilization of international opinion." [1:03]
Renfrew Christie describes how international opinion had swung against apartheid by the mid-1980s, leading major corporations to no longer want to be associated with apartheid.
Born in Johannesburg 1949, Renfrew Christie was active in the National Union of South African Students while at Witwatersrand University and was full-time Deputy President of NUSAS in 1971-72. Christie was arrested under the Terrorism Act in 1979 and spent seven months in solitary confinement. He was sentenced in 1980 and spent seven years in prison for supplying the African National Congress with information about the government’s nuclear weapons program, on Escom, on Koeberg, and on Sasol. Christie is now Dean of Research at the University of the Western Cape.
