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Especially given the criticism leveled last week by Bishop Desmond M. Tutu and the Rev. Allen Boesak--widely recognized leaders of the very people the university intended to aid by sending interns--it seems likely that Bok will now have to scrap the program, at least as currently conceived. And while administrators may avoid such an embarassing conclusion to their prized project by waiting out criticism and proceeding slowly on the internships in the future, Harvard has clearly lost this round in the continuing battle to win credibility for its engagement-oriented position on relations with South Africa...
...have been arrested since the state of emergency was declared on July 27 are virtually the entire leadership of the United Democratic Front, a multi-racial opposition group which has dedicated itself to non-violent protest methods. The recent detention and release of the Rev. Allan Boesak illustrates what is happening to committed non-violent leaders all over South Africa. Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, was charged with subversion after he called for school and consumer boycotts and withdrawal of foreign investments. He was freed on bail on September 20th after spending nearly a month...
...Although Boesak was greeted by a cheering crowd of 300 as he exited the jail, this man who has galvanized Black dissent over the past decade won't be seeing many crowds in the months to come. The government was careful to place 10 seriously limiting conditions on Boesak's release. He can not leave his home between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m; he can no longer address meetings of more than 10 people, organize boycotts or divestment drives, visit educational institutions, or attend funerals without police permissions...
...Boesak has said that his detention only strengthened his resolve to fight apartheid, but the leader, who is required to report to the police every day, will obviously be limited in what he can do for the movement...
...Black South Africans understandably lose faith in the effectiveness of the non-violent philosophies of Boesak, Tutu and the rest, younger activists like Stephen Tshewete are gaining greater followings. A former prisoner who has urged that township unrest be brought into white areas, Tshewete's impassioned pleas are becoming increasingly popular. If moderates who want peaceful change are being thrown in jail, youths are saying to themselves, why should they continue to limit their tactics...