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Though concern over apartheid among the faculty had been growing, gradually but steadily, for some time, Botha's announcement of the whites-only election on May 6 was the immediate catalyst for change at Stellenbosch. It precipitated the rebellion of the professors, who demanded that real reform take place. This challenge shocked students into attention. "Politics has passed rugby as the main interest on campus since the election was announced," confirms Philip Nel, director of the Institute of Soviet Studies...
Anton Steenkamp, a former editor of Die Matie, a year ago led an attempt by Stellenbosch students to visit the headquarters of the outlawed African National Congress in Lusaka, but the government refused to issue them passports. He says he finds more dissatisfaction than ever before. "There has been a shift to the left on campus, especially since the independent candidates have emerged...
...Kremlin "had its work done for it in Washington." Waving his arms, Botha insisted, "South Africa is the scapegoat of America's bad conscience, ((but)) the South African government is not prepared to surrender." Some 2,000 Afrikaners leaped to their feet, applauding wildly. Carrying his campaign to restive Stellenbosch last week, Botha claimed that "reform, change and ( renewal" run "like a golden thread" through the history of the National Party. Those who thought otherwise, he declared, "should be ashamed of themselves." Student hecklers in the back howled and jeered at Botha, and one of them asked when he would...
...intelligentsia. Because it is an ideology as well as a power system, apartheid needs the Afrikaner intelligentsia to explain and justify its workings. The intellectual center of Afrikanerdom is the University of Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town, and Stellenbosch is in turmoil. Not only are the students increasingly disaffected (see box), but 27 senior academics recently resigned in protest from the National Party and issued a manifesto demanding abolition of all "residuals of apartheid." When the Cape Town Nationalist newspaper Die Burger dismissed the gesture as "trivial" because there were only 27 protesters in a faculty of more than...
...government is the captive of its own meaningless rhetoric," observes Stellenbosch Economics Professor Sampie Terreblanche, a leading National Party adviser, member of the Broederbond and, until he was fired last month for joining the 27, vice chairman of the South African Broadcasting Corp. "The government is never prepared to admit mistakes. It will not dismantle apartheid. The National Party is an Afrikaner party, and it intends to keep power not just in white hands but in Afrikaner hands. It was never in favor of real reform. That was just cosmetic, to prolong Afrikaner control...