Word: internship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 20 Black South Africans and about 30 students gathered outside Massachusetts Hall Saturday to protest Harvard's fledgling South African Internship program...
...members of the Boston Union of Black South Africans and the Harvard students protested the program for about an hour, charging that Harvard did not adequately consult Black South Africans about the implications of the internship program in that racially torn nation...
South African Internship schemes like Constructive Engagement represent the first alternative, they present themselves as initiatives against apartheid but are executed through close consultations with white South Africans. These white South Africans, like Professor James Moulder and Vice-chancellor Stuart Stevens of the University of Cape Town (a government run, almost exclusively white university) are direct beneficiaries of the current distribution of power in South Africa. There are many white South Africans who oppose apartheid but do not support Black majority rule. Their party is the Progressive Federalist Party, which contains the owners of the main gold mines. Such people...
...thus unfortunate that the Crimson in their Thursday feature on the South African Internship scheme sought to describe such people as "moderate," when in fact they represent some of the most dangerous elements in South Africa. Their role in sustaining Botha's rule is reminiscent of that of the German liberals towards Bismarck's regime: they are a "loyal opposition" which is unwilling to risk the loss of its social privilege by making real alliances for democracy with the majority. By being willing to participate in Botha's sick charade of democracy, they undermine the possibility of creating the South...
Sources: A REPORT ON THE HARVARDUNIVERSITY SOUTH AFRICAN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM,issued by the Harvard-Radcliffe Sounthern AfricaSolidarity Committee, January 29, 1986 andinterviews with Steiner Committee members.Eliot House Master ALAN E. HEIMERT and VicePresident and General Counsel DANIEL STEINER:spearheading the effort to bring Harvard studentsto South Africa...