Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume 39, Issue 10. 24 May 1976
[Introduction]
Lindsay Wright, a former research officer with the New Zealand Students' Association and the Association of University Teachers, visited South Africa in 1970 as a guest of the National Union of South African Students.
Generally sypathetic to white South Africa before he visited the country, he returned to help build the National Anti-Aparheid Committee. Now Information Officer for Victoria University, he was on the national Steering Committee for the Education Development Conference and a member of the Working Party set up to co-ordinate International Women's Year in New Zealand.
He gives his views on apartheid, and a few impressions of South Africa, in an an article prepared for student newspapers.
South Africa, according to the recently departed Consul-General, Peter Philip, is a multi-national country - a collection of different peoples, with different cultures.
It is, he said many times, a country that is trying, with all the resources it can muster, to bring its majority black population up to a civilized level.
"The secret to the whole thing is that South Africa is a multi-national complex and not a multi-racial one."