Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

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."