Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 11. 1966.
Folk Found Subversive
Folk Found Subversive
Student Mirror Service
The Student Representative Council of the University of Pretoria has banned the formation of a folk-singing group — because folk-singers are "subversive, communistic and threaten the future of the Afrikaner." The trouble started when a group of students planned to hold a meeting to form a folk-singing group. The SRC banned the meeting in the light of "preliminary findings" made by a committee which investigated folk-singing. The ban on folk-singing comes three months after the SRC also banned women students at Pretoria University from smoking on the campus.