The State - News from March 10, 1987

South African anti-apartheid leader Allan A. Boesak thanked the California Assembly for passing a divestiture law, but urged the lawmakers to press President Reagan for additional economic pressure on his country. “There’s been no leadership coming from the White House at all,” the Rev. Boesak said in a speech to the Assembly. “The White House and the State Department are constantly undermining the effects of the Congress in putting on pressure.” Boesak is on a three-day visit to California with scheduled stops at both UCLA and USC. The Legislature last year passed, and Gov. George Deukmejian signed, a bill calling for the state to phase out all investments in firms doing business in South Africa over the next three years and banning new investments in such companies to protest that nation’s apartheid policy.