Word: capetown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petition is directed against an attempt by the South African government to exclude non-whites from the universities at Capetown and Witswatersrand. These are the only unsegregated universities in the Union...
Apartheid's ultimate goal is the complete separation of the African and European ways of life, from the ground up. In education this implies strict segregation. The only remaining nonsegregated universities are at Capetown and Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). At these "open" universities, blacks and whites mix freely and accrue mutual benefits in understanding each other's needs and problems. There have been no racial tensions in Capetown or Witwatersrand, nor have either whites or blacks expressed desires for segregation...
...Strijdom Government, in determination to erase the last traces of racial mixing, is about to end the "open" status of these universities. Dr. T. B. Davie, Principal of the University of Capetown, described Strijdom's aim as trying "to establish and perpetuate an inferior status in the African in relation to the European." All evidence seems to corroborate this charge...
Although there is little hope that moral pressure will force Strijdom to abandon the forthcoming segregation of the universities of Capetown and Witwatersrand, several international student groups, among them NSA, are attempting to apply such pressure on the South African Government. A petition will circulate in Harvard this week, similar to one that will be introduced into every university in the non-Communist world, condemning the segregation. Though such action may have little effect, it will further remind Strijdom that his policies are in little accord with the Western principles he is trying to preserve in South Africa. The fact...
...Angeles papers: Princess of the Nile (20th Century-Fox) : "No woman with a soul ever danced like Shalimar." About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount): "She gave more of herself in six weeks than most women give in a lifetime!" Hell Below Zero (Columbia): "You'll never forget the fight in Capetown . . . the kiss on deck . . . the rendezvous in the cabin." Said Variety: "It was contended by some that public intelligence had outgrown some of the [Production Code] bans-but more important, that Hollywood, too, had outgrown its years of bad taste. Not so! ... On the basis of this type of film...