The American hotel chain Westin said it...

The American hotel chain Westin said it is leaving South Africa by ending a contract to manage Johannesburg’s best-known hotel, the Carlton. Patrick Kelly, the hotel’s general manager, said Westin Hotels and Resorts decided to quit South Africa because of rising pressure from the U.S. anti-apartheid lobby. “It was not Westin’s desire to pull out,” Kelly told a news conference. Under a contract with the Carlton’s South African owners, Anglo American Properties Ltd., Westin has managed the 670-room hotel since it opened in 1972. The hotel will remain open.