Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he came to power in 1954, Prime Minister Strijdom of the Union of South Africa has pushed the Nationalist Party's policy of "apartheid" (segregation) into every corner of South African life. In the name of preserving the purity of Western civilization from the "mongrelizing influence" of the blacks...
Apartheid's ultimate goal is the complete separation of the African and European ways of life, from the ground up. In education this implies strict segregation. The only remaining nonsegregated universities are at Capetown and Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). At these "open" universities, blacks and whites mix freely and accrue mutual benefits...
Strijdom has publicized his plan to build new schools, "tribal colleges," for blacks and whites. But the estimated Government subsidization for the white colleges more than triples that for the Africans. Moreover, the curricula imposed on the "African" schools prohibits blacks from being admitted to European (Continental) universities. The policy...
Although there is little hope that moral pressure will force Strijdom to abandon the forthcoming segregation of the universities of Capetown and Witwatersrand, several international student groups, among them NSA, are attempting to apply such pressure on the South African Government. A petition will circulate in Harvard this week, similar...