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As the South African economy became less attractive to foreign investors in 1977/78, the AAM stepped up its campaign against British companies with big South African interests. One of its main targets was the electrical engineering and electronics company GEC, a major supplier to South Africa’s parastatal corporations and the sixth largest employer of black labour. This factsheet detailed GEC’s involvement in the apartheid economy. Other target companies were ICI, BP/Shell, Barclays Bank and British Steel.