Towards the day of hard choices

File, Jon; Heever, Annamia van den; Saunders, S. J.

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“…All UCT documents, for example, carry the formal statement that "The University of Cape Town rejects racism and racial segregation and strives to maintain a strong tradition of non-discrimination on grounds of race, religion and gender in the constitution of its student body, in selecting and promoting its staff, and in its administration"; Rhodes, Wits and Natal make similar statements. Now that the Apartheid policy has collapsed, the Englishspeaking universities are no longer legally restrained from putting into practice what they have for so long preached, while the black universities, and even the Afrikaans-speaking universities, are beginning to adapt themselves to the new and more open realities (File, van den Heever and Saunders 1989).…”

Section: The Social and Political Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the ?New South Africa?: Equal opportunity policies at the University of Cape town

Herbstein

1993

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Abstract. South African universities are currently adjusting their policies to the demands and realities of the 'New South Africa' developing from the collapse of the Apartheid regime that had governed the State during the period . The most striking of these efforts come from the four Englishspeaking universities (Cape Town (UCT), Witwatersrand, Rhodes and Natal). A description is given of the changes made at UCT over the past decade to alter the gender composition and demographic balance among the various racial groups constituting the student body, and to a lesser extent the faculty, under the guise of an 'Equal Opportunity' policy, with an analysis of the constraints limiting the applications of these policies, and some of the accompanying tensions and contradictions.

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Section: The Social and Political Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%