Word: scholten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Firm Stand. Catholic authorities stood firm. Said Father Dominic Scholten, head of the bishops' education department: "The time has come for the church to stand up and be counted." Added Sister Bernadette, headmistress of the newly integrated St. Catherine's Convent in the Transvaal town of Florida: "There are three criteria that we apply when enrolling pupils, and race is not one of them. We accept anyone who has correct moral character, intellectual ability and can pay our fees" (about $400 a year). A newspaper survey showed that 85% of those white parents who were questioned supported desegregation...
...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 now allow our own black people...
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