50 Years Ago
The proposals of the South African Government to enforce racial segregation at the university-level and to exercise rigid control over projected colleges for non-whites has caused concern and indignation in university circles throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. Some of this concern found expression in a well-attended meeting held at the Caxton Hall in London … The audience gave a polite but sceptical hearing to Prof. L. J. du Plessis, of the Potchefstroom University, who had come over from South Africa to present the case in favour of university apartheid … Prof. du Plessis said:“If I were in England, I would be an integrationist too, because it is not a danger to English national character, and if I were in America I would be an integrationist too; the negroes in America are in no danger of destroying that great nation of America in its identity. But the Bantus and Indians and Coloureds of South Africa, if they are integrated more fully than they are now, would undoubtedly destroy our great South African nation”.
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