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RICHARD SUZMAN '64, a South African, attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg before transferring to Harvard. This summer he attended the congress of the National Union of South African Students...
Founded in 1924, NUSAS accepts all college students as members "irrespective of race, color, or creed." At present 19 colleges belong to NUSAS, and all students attending these colleges are automatically NUSAS members unless they specifically resign; few have done so. Member colleges include the Universities of Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Rhodes, and Natal, several teachers colleges, and two theological schools...
...third and probably largest grouping are those who feel something should be done, but do nothing. They remain silent, cowed by fear of the consequences of any radical anti-government activity. The perils they confront are delineated in an editorial the student newspaper at Witwatersrand University wrote last year after 2,000 students and faculty demonstrated against the sweeping Sabotage...
Perhaps the best article (this reviewer too has fallen prey to academic equivocation) in the current issue is "South African Jewry in Crisis" by Richard Suzman. Suzman, a junior in Social Relations, is, we are told, a transfer student from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. In an extremely lucid and understated style Suzman describes the plight of South African Jews caught up in the turbulent and often violent politics of that land...
...Johannesburg's Witwatersrand University, a young South African lecturer in chemistry publicly turned his back on his country. Said David Rosseinsky, 28: "Call it running away if you like, but living in this country with all its political and racial frustrations so affects me that I yearn for release...