Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vorster's virulent smear, given great prominence in the South African press, is probably a prelude to banning NUSAS or its leaders...
Johannes Balthazar Vorster, the South African Minister of Justice, last week attacked the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) as a "cancer" that "has become the mouthpiece of Lefitists" and is "tainted with Communism...
...statement, Vorster said NUSAS subscribes to Pan-Africanist ideals and cooperates with student organizations in Ghana, Ethiopia, and other Black African countries. He also assailed the Union for advocating complete integration--political, social, and biological. NUSAS favors integration of all education from kindergarten through college...
...Justice Minister pointed out that, in common with South Africa's Liberal and Communist parties, NUSAS supports the maxim: "One Man One vote." The student organization has worked closely with the banned African National Congress, Vorster claimed. At the NUSAS convention in July Nobel Prize Winner Albert Luthuli, former ANC leader, was elected honorary president of NUSAS...
Editorial note: In South African usage the word African refers to Negroes; the word Afrikaner refers to the white descendants of the Dutch settlers and the Boers. There are about 10 million Africans In South Africa out of a total population of 16 million. The Afrikaners, who speak the Afrikaans language, compose about 60 per cent of the white population...