Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooper said the complete segregation of the South African school system makes education far more difficult for Blacks and "coloured" residents. Education has become not a tool for learning, but another way for the Soweto government to oppress South Africa's indigenous people, he said. But he said this same segregation has worked towards its own destruction...
Kennedy School student Moka Ngolo Mpati, president of the new group, said he hoped it would become a national organization raising funds for Black South African schools. But for now, he said, its leaders want to concentrate on raising money for materials to send to South Africa...
...science textbooks and paper, then ship them to schools that either the Harvard Graduate School of Education or SAZM has targeted as needy, Mpati said. Group leaders also said they hoped to send U.S. teachers to South Africa to work in Black schools and to help train Black South African teachers...
...Sending money to South Africa is difficult unless the group is directed by the government itself," Campbell said. "My own view is that Harvard should extend larger and more scholarships to South African students...
...only end here is to work for the improvement of the South African Education system," Mpati said. "We also want to rely on South African students in the U.S. to point out what schools need help. We...have a non-political...