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Shell’s divestment stance contradicts role during apartheid

BUILDING A DEMOCRATIC STATE

Shell operated in South Africa during the era of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and Orange River racist, oppressive colonial regimes. The British oil and gas multinational corporation persisted and even expanded its operations following the consolidation of the four into the racially oppressive British colonial dominion, the Union of South Africa, in 1910.

British imperialist-controlled capital and the white capitalists, as the Communist International found out in 1928, were equally interested in the merciless capitalist exploitation of the oppressed black majority. The oppressors continued the colonial expropriation of the black majority and

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