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...have very strong questions about seeking the blessing of political organization," Heimert says...
...Heimert unlike many other Americans tried to listen rather than prescribe to us what our political views should be," says James Moulder, director of Public Relations at the University of Cape Town of the master's trips to South Africa...
...Heimert's November journey became the center of controversy earlier this month when a report written and researched by the student divestment activist group, the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC), lambasted the educational institutions which responded to the professor's solicitation of organizations interested in interns. The report also charged that Heimert failed to meet with Black South African leaders while there...
...Heimert says he met with Blacks, but he disagrees with SASC on whom he should meet. Heimert says he consulted with Black educators informing them about the program, pointing to a meeting in Cape Town with Black professors and a meeting with members of the Soweto Parents Council, a community effort to educate Blacks in that segregated township. "I meet with educators," when involved in an educational project, not politicians, Heimerts argues...
...enormously to Alan Heimert's credit that instead of being an imperial, colonial-minded American by interfering in our politics, he consulted with Black and white South Africans about what Harvard can do," says Moulder, who arranged Heimert's meetings in Cape Town...