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...African leaders. Among them: Andreas Shipanga, a former SWAPO Information Officer released from a Tanzanian prison, who formed the SWAPO Democrats in opposition to Nujoma last month, and Herman Toivo Ya Toivo, one of SWAPO's founders, who has been in the South African maximum security prison on Robben Island for the past ten years. Toivo, popular with the Ovambo tribesmen who constitute the bulk of SWAPO membership; is no friend of Nujoma's. "His big problem is that he is no longer a major force within the country," says Shipanga. "He has been too long...
...businessmen. The prospect at the university level is that a comfortably tenured faculty, whose work is not subject to any kind of review, will stay on forever, regardless of competence. This change could not come at a worse time, since the number of teaching jobs is shrinking. Says Robben W. Fleming, president of the University of Michigan: "We're creating a missing generation that doesn't have a chance in the academic world. The department heads say they are not going to have many openings for the next ten years. That's disastrous. They need stimulating young people to challenge...
...Island is about two political prisoners in a cell on Robben Island, the infamous prison island off the coast of South Africa. John and Winston still try to maintain their dignity and humor despite the deadening fatigue and hard-labor in the quarry. The main action of the play is their effort to stage Sophocles's Antigone in the prison. Unexpectedly, John finds out he will be released in three months; Winston, in for life, is condemned to become one of the desiccated, withered shells of men they see working silently at the quarry. Their staging of Antigone shows...
...astonishing that the South African government has allowed the two plays to tour, not only in South Africa itself, but also throughout the world, when it has at its disposal the convenient Robben Island of a traditionally unscrupled police force. Even if South Africa has been in recent years forced by economic and guerrilla pressure to edge toward a far-off detente with Black Africa, its lenience here suggests that the government, at least, does not consider the political message overbearing. The two plays may suffer from a sense of unsubtle didacticism, but an audience that expects an angry expression...
...university is an open question. Since last fall, when Charles Hitch announced his plans to retire, the regents' search committee had culled a list of 260 names to find a new president. The choice finally narrowed down to Saxon, the candidate of the liberals and moderates, and Robben Fleming, president of the University of Michigan, who was backed by the conservatives. After several trips to California, Fleming withdrew from the running and the regents, with less than a solid vote of confidence, picked Saxon. On the final ballot 13 regents voted for Saxon, four abstained and six were absent...