Word: munnik
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they edged forward, Catholic officials could point to one odd justification for integration provided by the government itself. At the same time that Cape Administrator Louis Munnik was threatening to close two integrated Catholic schools last week, he ordered two white state schools to accept six black students. Reason: the six happened to be children of the consul from Transkei, one of the black "homelands" to which South Africa granted independence but which no other nation recognizes. Foreign black diplomats are exempted from South Africa's racial system, and in view of such exemptions, argues Father Scholten, "we should...