ZHAW International Business Seminar Series: Navigating Sanctions and Apartheid
In this session of the International Business Seminar Series, Dr. Kondwani Happy Ngoma examines the role of firms in advancing or hindering social integration and their response to political risk in the context of economic sanctions and decolonisation. Using the case of Barclays Bank in South Africa between 1960 and 1990, he analyses how the firm navigated the tensions of operating under apartheid.
The paper presented by Dr. Ngoma focuses on Barclays Bank, the leading bank in South Africa during the period under study. Following the institutionalisation of apartheid in 1948, the bank’s interests and operations in South Africa and Britain came under increasing strain. While existing research has largely focused on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, fewer studies have adopted a firm-centred perspective.
Date
Start date: 19 March 2026, 12.30 pm
Location
ZHAW School of Management and Law, Building SW, Room 322, and online
Organizer
ZHAW International Management Institute
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ZHAW International Management Institute