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Page 1: rd poei - University of the Witwatersrand · 0"1' the scourge 01' the people - tbe pas~lewQ-u;e constant . ~clers that tbe 1rbi.te JII8D is on top and that tbe Blacks ,are being tolerated
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frca all the main student organi­h-publici. ~ calls for greater Black is described by Prof. H.~. Van der erw 7 InatltDte of Inter-Racial St~diea.

greate knowledge,contact and .~~U8 population grouPe, the Abe

1al Stud1 held its first inter­at the Yn1veretiy of C pe Town from --

.tu~ tbiS year w 8 student activism in

rew t9 ther stud nt leaders tro all the ione in the country: the "conserv ive"

.u~.., tb '.00 rate t JUJ'SAS, and th ".D.J.'-;& ~ri can Stud n t • Organi 8 tlon (SASO) .

s as fruitful 8 po ibl, w ad ics fr Sou h Atric univ raitles

i c

rel tion. • 1 ou

who res nto to ign .crit C8 YiBited the countr.r. lived-here, or learned

oars hat tor him a tac -to-fac enoounter 18 UIlDec ry inc he can t to know him

-'''-ti the rtJnent of Coloured Aftaira?" 7 are Wi haye regul rly brought tog th r e We tern Cap univers ti 8 1n evening

ro were delivered, discussed and _ ..... ·..-Ion t authors and sub q ent

that the ide of tbe workshop'gr' • fr our experience?

, ' -..... '""5 beea.e increas1.ngly clear: tbat while 1 t is hoped ~tt.r erstandi.n& will contribute' toward better relation8

ot 81...,. t e cas. Tilts became very obvious wben di tri..call3'-opposed thougbtp of the Afrikaans

e macks. Here there w so- little common ground wjl1iDgness to coapromise that greater tolerance

consequence of the juxta~osition . At least one stated clearly that bis views could not be changed

t:nJe 0£' diSC1l8:non. Tbe conflic..t o..f interests is mucb' ~t to be resolved b7 ere dialogue. Still, on~ cannot

t . this contronta~~n was worthless . It"wae of ~nesti-...

2/ mabl~', value.: ••• "

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ble value for its ve~ rarity - in r 0 r s1~~0Da woa1d on b able to put fo rd such t:ro17 GppCMrlte Yi. a .-conf eren ce t able in. ~ h .Afft.ca . I'tartbeJWOre , Uleir wer.J oposi on clar1fi_ed tnel.r re8pe'CtiTe poei t1 s , e11n .. ~ c aref'ul17 b7 contrast . "

t e l itics and p er were not oar cnl7 CQDC

covered a wide range of inter-personal relati in !iel.da of education , religion , cul~ and .acid-lire. SoaUa Urica i s, and will remain. s mllti-naticmal 1nte~ted sOC'ie"t7 ~ le88 of th SSUTe of r 8iden 1s1 terri tor:ia1 • UCXl which be chleved in the tare .

Our lives are bound :p wi tb ~1lCe B c us of his , d aperate17 need pant put it ·.. ... thare wi 11 M ........ auc

w1 th en after th Mrikaner ' s di p.YI ••• .,. ... "'r#' pOl1 1c 1 power as he occupies it n •

iJIportrult for relati pres nt po i t1 . or cri.i. • • •

for

. USA. and he r e :

was anything approaching .orally

This preoccupation of stude nts witb the politiee1 ~ is often deplored by the a c:lalt wor1d, no · 1'eaa 111 Soat. Urica than "in other countries, probably large17 because o~ tile 7cxRb­ful arrogance . whfch acccapanies them. into ba"1e.

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n.::tn'S ~CLE· ' oms J

Recentq Dr J.P. nmdny wrote in the Cape Timee makln a etrong case for student p~test, but pleading that the~ime place and aaDner adop~ed be chosen dicreetly. He argued th~t th mlitants wbo are unable to distinguish between the trivial· and tbe si8lrl1"i.cant, bebeen courage and bravado shoUld "be . bken ~~. '

. 11 it is obviously a rea~onable re quest that these d}stinctions be made, the problem c omes when the l1ne h s to b ~ bet. en the various qualiti e be outlines. Where is

line to be drawn between the trivial and the significant and b7 wboa?

It is ~ hope that the publication or a book on the work-o will b Ip to clarify the ideals and the spirations of botb

tbe Black and 1tbi t stud nts represented tit, and will e opl ore a re of the contribution stud nts can

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b o

1 r sooi ty a well s in a.cad mic 11fe.

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RACE BELATIO 51

- 9th Octob r, 1970_)

up bl the

the 5.A.. lnt Buro vir w s not tied

lel Inti t

Protessor an dr. rwe said the in tltute, witb it. 01fio of the University of Cape Town, was in a position

de p r knowl dg of race reI ion.

Din rent Views:

It plann d to bring together in tbese orksbope' acad os fr Afrikaans, English and non-Wbi te uni verei ties in Soutb Africa and fro abroad. .

Tb 7 would repr sent different trackgrounde, different acada.1c and political orientations and consequently conflic­ting interpret tions ot curr nt events in South A.frica.

w!b n ed for ucb dialogue is speoially evident amons soc1al scientists in South African Universitiee wbose aoademic contacts are ~oo often limited to others of the same ideOlogi­cal orientation," Professor van der Merwe said.

Recent research findings of the institute had blghllgbted .. tbe great ideological distance b~tween Aft1kaans and .Ebg11ab-

, . epeald.ng academics. . In tbe 'workshops' the participants would meet and ex­

Qhange ideas on 'working' papers . 'What will distinguish these pra,osed workshops from tbe hOrJDal sympo·sia is the .intimate and prolo~ged contact and criticism to which ,~rticipants w1ll be

4/ e"tpoeed. .. .. ,

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.. .. 0 .. 4,' Pror ••• or Y8.D der nre ea1d.

roaeb had be D Dad to the Pord Poundation to o puata trc. abroad and it was 81so b,oped t hat

801lt:b Uric in s. bou es would support South 'lr""riCin -l

c1 'ta.

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Cape ~. Political Reporter

,Mnca re beginning to realize tbe n 4 or tb ir surfering - th ir black kin proaises tbe c tro. tb

to r President ot th ' all-Black Soutb 1zat D.,. cS in Oa Town ,.e.tercl •

k wor14 in teras

-JUrt r, the,. iY buil t up s ." raJ. tribal COOOClD. there­boping to ~n1; inter-tribal i l l - r el1.n8 and to d1Teri .

1; rgiea or tb B1aek peopl e t qwards attain1q tal.e pre-scribed' d' •

• 8JIo ewer, the mack peopl c ould be ertectiTe17 contained in these "Yarl0llB 'cocoons of repression, eupbeai..ticalq re-~ d t .o boaelanda.

Q ...,.mt or propaganda in Badio lIan'tn or prc.l_ of fraedca being grante to seae desert baae1and will e."er coDYince -

BleeD that t he GoTeruaent eans well · as long aa tbe,. experienc ..m1'estati~Ds or ~be lack of r espect for tbe '. dism. 't7 0"1' .an and L,or bis property.

- !be UDBeCeaaar,r harassment of AfTicans by police both in towns and inside townships and tbe ru~bless application 0"1' the scourge 01' the people - tbe pas~lewQ- u;e constant

. ~clers that tbe 1rbi.te JII8D is on top and that tbe Blacks ,are being tolerated with the greatest re~raint.

5/ mIited •• . -.. ' ..

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5 -------.-Unit d P!rtl' 0"

"Needl 8e to 8 y, Gnyone finding hiasel! a~ the ing end of such deliberate though uncalled for cruelt,r ulti tely aek himself the question - what do I haYe to ?

4'"mhi ,"'8 h th B ..L ... at e lacke.a beginn1n ~o

Mr Bik~ ~ai~ther was a etron possibility ~ t ~ United Party wae on the r~ght of the Nationalists. Atri long go dir~ ; ~1 the .n ~ ed Party as a STeat political f

If til U. P . ~8 galnlng any votes it Is prec1 q cauee it in L~~ . n~ ~ore explicit in i s c1 ollC7 •

of pon

s 1

r Biko dismissed all White poli tical part! , NUSAS and the "liberal e tabliB ntW Bins or tt inln Black spltlone.

"It n ver occurred to h liberals hat an eff c ive wa7 of oppo

achi ve in South ric.

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'CONSCIENCE CLAUSE ' MUST GO: .. Argus January 21, 197

THE GOVERNMENT fully supports tl) tend taken b7 t • Afrikaanse Studentebond in seeking tb bolitlon of t • ~onacience clause' in univ rstty legislati t ccordiDg to the 1~edlate past president of the A.S.B. (Ir JOban. ~Ck).

He said in an address 10 Cape Town tOday tbat L.·. stand on this issue had been discussed wi b th Priae ~~ (Mr B.J. Vorst-er) and the nister or 'N tiona! Educati..oD than once.'

Mr Flck said: 'The A.S.B. is pleased that the p seDt Government has \he same viewpoint 8S the A.S.B. OD this matters. Without doubt this means ~b ror the A.S.B.'s future concern with this issue.' He was speaking on A.S.B. affairs at the first inter­

disoipl1.nary research workshop of tbe Abe Bailey InstitUte of. Inter-racial Studies at the University of C~pe own.

6/ The ta1ks ••• ~ •• , .' ..

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!b talks are bing atzended by academics and students fro,m • numb r of South African universities.

. Mr ok said: "The A.S.B. regarde the nforced presence ----( a.ong teenwoordigbeid) of the conscience clause in

university laws as bing in conflict with the auton~ of • univ rait ' and its freedom to determine ita own character."

!b 'on clenol claus ' _(providing for no discrimination -e~~at stud t or staff on the ground of religion) h s been taken rtu 117 unchan ed from similar British legislation.

~ . thie, South African univ raities re deprived o~ tbl rigbt to date ne th ir own ch r cter.' Kr Pick sald.

Tb ~.S.B.'e 8tand Inet th 'conacienc clau •• ' did t ' oral force' sbould be us d ainat any person ity should k to ret in the 'oon80ience clau •

llowed to do .0. - JlUSAS.

ck al 0 oritici.ed h N ion 1 Un10n of South ud nt (NU AS) - r its stand on varioue 1e UI , hat 0 Briti b 8 sa18e -to South A ric •

SAS a 'the bi at a1 gl~ obet 01, in co-oper tion tw n Afrika n8- d Engl18h­in South Africa.

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C P T me i tio ;1 Reporter ·Bl ok c no long r afford to be led nd dom~n ted bl

non-Blaoks •••• Black peopl uet realize that they ar on h ir own. Th ir d stiny li8S in their harid.," Kr Barney t7ana, preetd nt or the all-Bl ck South African Student.'

Organis tion, said in Cape Town ye.terday Kr rltyana wa addressing a multi-racial gathering of

stud nto and ac d mic during the first inter-university res reh workshop at th Abe Bailey Ill8ti tute of Int"er-racial _ Studies at tb University of C pe Town. ,

Speak1ng on "Po er and Social Change in South Africa", be empbas1zed the portance of Black group consciousness as a prerequisite for c angin~ - the ~tatus quo in South Atrica •

. -This ia the r lity of the South African situ tion. Ths Black persons wbo perform the same funct on in the producti~n precess become awar~ of' their oammon interests and unite to promote them against ~he opposing o~ass •

. VALUES: ...

"In order that a group of people can ~ring about cbange tbere must be an identity of int~resta which they eball seek to proteot and .promote. I submit that anr -identical interests between Black and White is effectively blurred by the colour question. .

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o~

eepq roo"ted l.Il t ir ~ an ... 'tiOllal .onoll t.hic atraet&.i..re. lrl 'lbi.

er a c l7staliz ir ~oalJt and rt1cu.la't.e 1A te~ or .t

ror t1.

Dalroc ... l'ul. 7

sball. 1e ~D"tre

DeCe8S11ia-tes a

a

Bi.acbcan BDd dam.oated 'b7 DClIl-.Bl..acb.·

~ Pi tyana rej ec i"te olitical. parties in South Africa including liberal -do-gooders- as a 8e8DS to effect cbange. He also eli sed tile idea that :t'oreign tnterO'"enti.on or pn~ -:111 cbaDge tit South A:tri.CaD si.tu-tion. -

do

"Blacks are beginning to appreciate the Yalue o~ th~ own efforts, unpollu~ed :t>7 ba1r-bear"ted support t'ra:l tbe White world" be coneluded.

The • research worltshap is ~i.ng a~ed b7 students b'oa various universities as well as delegatea f'roD JlUSAS aDd the

· ~ . S .B. 0 ~ 11 \

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SASO STUDENT Vnm'fT

K mb rs (o th new all-Black South African Stud en a' Organis tion (SASO) were in the forefront of a ove nt and feelIng that ould spread throughout South AfTic , a atudent lead r, Hr. Clive N~on, aid in an a~dress 1n Cap •

oent. dev lopmenta in SASO were of crucial po&wuu:~. be told academics and students attending the first in r­University r ee reb worksbop of the Abe Baile, Institute of In er-ra~ial Studies a· he University of C pe Town .

r. Nettleton, a former Vice-President of tb of Sou h Afri~an Students (NUSAS), aid 1

• ~m 0 te no acceptance of ana1rYr,. struggle to find an identity.' It

for tbe Bl ck s tudent to identity wi NUSAS. _

HOMELAND OR

xistenc SASO ieular the reluct

h or

contusion ",blcb ral' 1tbit fUll, .

i8 tb t believing in by an acc ptanc of

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INl"EGRATION: .

Cape Times 22nd.Jan, 1971. - Political Reporter -A. S. B. Leader ' s C810ured Policy:

Mr 'Johan Fick , immediate past president of tbe Afrikaanse 9/ Stuc;te ••••

< •

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(AS13), a id in Cape Town yesterday that be dt _ " tat d Government policy regarding tb future of p opl •

Ii ~ed tnat tbe Coloured people should ultimate­~ 81th r 1ntegrat with the White aection of the community or b giv n a bom land of their own on he same basie p1ans for African homelands .

recent tate en , the V1niater of Coloured Af! rs • L ta, de 1t ole r that the Cover.nmen~ reject d

1.nt grat10n with Whites and tbe id a o~ a b land with :r8JZBra to tho future cif Coloured people.

ot

Mr Loote'. resent po 1 ion ot

e in solu 10n.-position of ind pen~ent

said h b lieved hat such in­to have, e in h as of lao th righ to ort

fully

gar d s th enforoed pre cnoe ot tbe in univ raity 1 "s s h ing 1"n oonflict

ity and ita fr edom to deter­id .

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AIMS TO STIR BLACK AWARENES~;

~he Argus 25tb Jan., 1971. STAFF REPORTER.

The aims of SASO, the newly formed all-Black South • African Studebts' Organization, have b~en outlined in ~tervie in Cape Town by its 25-year-old law s~dent ~~tden~~ Barney Pityana. .

'.r Pi tyana said: "We muat ma.kt'e Blaoks ae far as possible independent of the Whi~ ~d mak~ them ~ali8e they are on tbeir own. In order that a group of, people can brin abQ:u.:: c.bange tbere ~li"s'" be an identity .wnich ...

10/ tbe .• r-:--

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lIhite or patroDi. • a -oar Co10are8

.' , II •

nt?

wbat we ntenance o~ o~ Ives

a rona of Blac tb Urica 1

tion o~ holp-

.... Maesi ~t are numbe d

11/ talk ••• ..

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To talk to the art~late Coloured leadership t~ about "a new deal~ if they will only exercise patience 1a likely to evoke superior and rather amus d le ••

The Coloured man is now fighting his own way tb.ruU.D to sel~-t'es1l~c and a conSCl.ousnese of hi'S own dl¢"t7 _ . as a d1rect result of Government policy , ironicall7 en~~.

In the Coloured Representative Council, di.OTCe tho ' t e political structure, a coneciousne 8 of pot ___ ~.~ polit al and economic strength ae a group hae rge strik1 g fashion.

Consider for example, the resolution wbich 1. to discussed by the Labour Party'e national exec tiTe at Easter, calling on non-Whites not to patronise p trol firms which do no e proper, clean and ad q te rest-room facilities for non-Whites at garage ••

Or consider the Labour P '8 call for to boycott of br ad for five days next week.

This is to register objectione, insignificant 1 elves, there lios the &mbryo of B formidable polit

striking force.

~ ______ ~z __ n __ h_i~B: ,

Th go 1 ot th Coloured ieadership i. ent of full citizenship South African ••

th , ju t pre ent that moet effective attaini bi. at tue i through dev 10 n or

nee of cup con eio nes , using apartbe1.d c . .xpres ion to the hilt .

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Long- l"1'Il in?: Th shift 10 th psychological

the long run, contrib t much to th Sou b rica.

W. ar 0 vel' going unle.s we t lx to ane another. But dt be protty fruitl. 8 unless it rests on r cogn t10n of human dignity.

Non-Wb1 t Soutb Africans, in tbe1r gro'tdnB CUQj-"LUII~·_~ n ss of a oommon 1dent1 ty, w1l1 hencetortb d~u.u.a reoo&D:1t1on.

In tbe long run, an ccommodation of fore Afrioa will have to emerge in wbicb "Black Power­Power" strike ao~e kind of balanoe.

In' the d tee of the 1971 session of the Yh1 e' parliament this new element will be constantly in ground - the embryonio aense of a common iden~t7~ oommon 'oause, now emerging among.tb d sfrancb masses.

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.ttt.1n Our Aap1rat10n, sa;y~ 131k~; -......-._ ~ ~-

t , 23rd J n " 1971 . - ......."

C E TO : Mr Blko , former President of the all Black South African Student • Organisation, has rejeoted all

ite olitic 1 par 1 and pr e ure groups , including USAS and 11 Wh ite liberals, as vehicles for expreseing

,or A 1 'l<'k aspira ions .

He A1AO arned that Whit Sou h Afri ca a on he road or no rl3turn .

s1ng t h, firat Inter-univeraity which is belng held t the University of

he~ of his alk was "White Racism and

Po ar 1n South Africa h'ad not on y had aleo old him now 0 rospond 0 we now b ginnln 0 h 19ne ,

hie ri ht nd 4uty to h way h a po 1."

"Needl e to s8.y, anyone findi ng hi mself at the receiv­ing d of such deliberate·, though uncal~ed for, ru~lty, must ultimately ask hims l f t he ques t ion - what dn I bave to 10se'1

"This is what the Blacks are beginning to ask them- . selves." ' ..

Mr Bi said there W8s ' a strong possibility that tbe . Uni te Party was on the rl,ght of the Nationa;.iets-. • Africans long ago di~isead the United Party ~s a gr.~at potttical fraud - if the U.P. 1s gaining any vote it is preoisely because it is ~~coming more emPl.icit in its racist pol~cy·~

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poll tical parties, pressure tab11 t- as a Tebiel

........... ..-: Bl..aek b'ationa. OC'eIIlrnM1 't tb lnt gratlon

• :t'"elt b )(r Diko.

ftlese ~o prese.n t reali ties. posi non 1l'Otlld e been in a

.

oain aparthei.d

th. inYolv -baTe b eD

the Will te 118ft talks abwt

the bitterne88 7 0UDgetera like

e ted to go beyond risaalise wbat their

ern world wittiout" tbe

14 inj etio~ " ••• •• • • •• ..

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injeotion of White teobnolo&y a~ !.nst IS cbey see tbeir-own peo e working hard wi tb 11 ttle prospec~ -of real dvanc mont, whilt!'" the Whi 1ie man enjo~a an incredi- • b~ bigb stand rd of livin •

at Mr Blko an4 otber young Africans want 'ia to share what the White man~ now has and, iike 70uth eye re o every race and creed, they want to ab it now, n~t in t '1e distant future in some remote "homeland" .

How to fulfil the growing sp1ratione and' tertal • need of these people - which they h?ve the abill~ , ~Ten

o portunity , 0 earn on their rita - ia t c ntral .' nd soci 1 problem f eing this countr,r t0da7.

most of such major proble s 1n 11 deyelop d - 1 s with th

Governm nt of iIlpl or hort-te , to the so probl li.t hav opt d for heir h lands olic~,

so they 19nor the exist.nc ot aillione 01----__ __ ophis ieat d, urbani.ed AtTic • w 0 a a

1 oona ie force in he 0 ntr,r a, not only a

n on •

• 1 , it . 11, in h lon run,

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Evoning Po t, kly colon South Atric

1971. - by .Urban nn y

oYing Away: •

The paat week there have been two ata ente b7 nOD-Wl')i .8 that deserve att ntion.

A Cap Times article expr sed tear 0 a Bl movement. In reply D.M.G. Curry, deputy leader ot ttl Labour Party in the Coloured Persona' Repreeent&ti.i , Council has written that the Coloured people are aoYins further away tfom the Whites tow~rds South Afriea'e AtriCaD I

people,. regardless of whether the Africans will accept the Coloured people or not . , .

Mr Murr8¥ sQyS separate development has created ,a ~~~~cial structure - "seperately •••• we live in our own

areas and most pollti~a1 talk 1s nti-White" .

, i l5/In ••••

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In Labour Party ~ acussions be says, the trend ~8: -Our ~th1.. do not ie with the Whites any looser _

~bng to th oppressed people of South Africa.-Curr,y' view cka of rac1al1em. Its undertone of

Black Power 1s quite repulaive. .

B1ack P or 1s as ab errent as ite P-~er, nd witbou~ 1Iarai ain it, llr Curry speaKe the same l811gwl8 8S JIr Jaap

and J c on.

en aore repre~ensible is the fact that Mr CUrT1 bas no ~luc'tanc to b C' nina a cog in tbe Nationalist Gov rn-

t hinery wbl rb forces the Coloured people tOmoYe turlh r .fraa tbe Wb1l.ee. ' \

_JLet CurT7 etve up his m mberehip or tbe Colour d

Person • Bepres ntatlv Council. I for one would tben b .0 tapres. d wi b hi 81nceri ty.

COb'h1. t ODS

. • policy aimed at the maintenance of Wbi~e

~-~n--r. ·OoYernaent polioies are mean to put us in our risbt _places. They ar meant to . indoctrinate us into beli rtng that are inferior •

.4 Pereo~1 • Ilr Pi ana went on to- s&,y that be was c)etel'll1ned to

$ establisb bis wortb. as a God-creates b~1n~:' t~e bad to assert his being as a person. . ~ . ,

" .

Clearly this young man will go :tar - tbat i., it " the Security PQlice will let h m. It was tliOU8httul and bigb17 st~ated .addre88 • . 1 ~ve no dQUbt that sa.ewbere in their arcbives therti is a doasier in which the. tbousbta and word a ot 'the clear-tltinklng Mr ~ity.ana ~e being recorded with great care., \.

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1 - P broary, 12, 1971.

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..."........,-- ..... 11

Bl ok world. "It ia not ae it lrbi tes &r' onl,. al.l d 'to

privilege when they d clare heir eo11dar1~ ~ ruling Par't7.. ~~.u·e born into pnrtle out 0 d nature in the s etem ot ruthle

:1 clt energy. "To 0

Witb open a he Blac

tives be, he bas to did not choose to be born but 0 Duspicious ot hie

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TO . PORE

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or o~ extremiet ovemente in other countries.

!l:clus1v :

Stud dt atto which has adopted the tera black b cause it 8 P sltlve implications which non-white lac .. bit app s to all egments of the South African etud n population whO have be n excluded by law trom tull

rt clp tiOD ln e privileges enjoyed by white s ents. It li e tb t thIs underp;1vileged position m87 not be a p nt one and th leaders of the movement bave re-p tedly stated that they will disband once 11 students eb re equal rights and ppor~iti s .

-other student organisations whicb have broken

~~~Jcb inclusive organisation8 such a8 KUSAS in ry create a positive and exclu8ive identity .

.. •

had an identity gi v nit by legislated .. ion. of bl eke fro priviLeged whit. eocleV. '

tb r SASO can uoce stully unite all bl ok s OoloUreds, Indians, Xhosa! Zulu etc .

) in8 to be. ta Ie lac c uses, ut such cl 1

1 0 prov •

j.ets pnV1.l

erg nc. of SASO indicats that 1~ &D7 soc1ett expect counter-soc1 tl~s to

ither question it exclusiven ••• or existence.

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• ·--·oOo~---. . BLAOX: POTIER PLEAS ROC CAPE: - Staff Reporter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . O~B TOWN I "Black Pow r" eecbee oy y ung Atrj.can 1el\4.1"8 bete Abe Bailey Institute of Inter-racial Studi.s • "

~ took Oape T<>wn by storm tliis week. . Vr Steve Biko, a Na~al University AfTican student , .

and. former chairman of tbe non-White South African Student.' Organi8at1o~, said: liThe Blacks are .startibg to realis.

, . 19/tbe

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