Word: studentbond
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...NUSAS does not include the four Afrikaans-speaking universities of Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Orange Free State, and Potchefstroom. These schools broke away in the 1930s to form their own organization--the Afrikaanse Studentbond...
Open only to white Afrikaans Christians, the Studentbond, is not recognized by any international student group. It strongly favors the Verwoerd government and adheres unswervingly to the official dogma of apartheid...
...Studentbond also subscribes to the government's doctrine of Christian National Education. This doctrine, stressing fierce Afrikaaner ethnocentrism and strict Calvinism, has increasingly transformed schools into centers of indoctrination. The doctrine has wryly been called neither Christian nor national nor education...
...some time the Studentbond has attacked NUSAS as "liberalist, integrationist, and treasonable." Although NUSAS has tried to increase contact between Afrikaans and English students, all its approaches have been rudely turned down; the rift between the two organizations is now wider than ever...
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