JCet us Uoe fo r V o u r C hildren, n c a Vol.XX No. 11 1 Annual Subscription 5/- Published Monthly. C a p e T o w n . S e p t ., 1948. J ♦ P ost Free- THE EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. September, 1948. The Teachers’ League of South Africa. CERES: Secretary : Mr. V. O. Hercules, . “Haroldene”. Trichard Street Ceres. CLAREM ONT : Mr. R. Dudley, Rev. D. M. Wessels, Mr. F. G Gram m er. Secretary : Mr. R. G. Taylor, Hereford Street, Clare- INDEX. mont. CRADOCK: Miss R. Butler. 75 Frere Street, Cradock. DE AAR : The Universities of the Master Race 1 Secretary : Mr. S. A. Wertheim, P.O. Box 3. De Aar. EASTERN CAPE : The Things They Say 2 Secretary : Mr. V. Pather, 14 Scanlan Street. Queenstown. EASTERN MIDLANDS : University of South Africa—Letter 3 Secretary : Miss M. Bantam, Alice Coloured Primary School. P.O. Lovedale. About Ourselves—Then and Now 5 EAST LONDON : Secretary : Miss R. E. Theron. 5 Cross Street, East London. GEORGE AtiD DISTRICT: IV—Impressions of N orw egian Secretary : Mr. S. 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ALBANY : WELLINGTON: Mr. J. Donald. Secretary: Mr. G. J. Plaatjes, 61 Albany Road, Grahamstown. Secretary : Mr. F. M. Snell, 5 West Street, Wellington. ALIWAL NORTH: WILLISTON : ATHLONE: Secretary : Mr. J. Klein. P.O. Box 22. Williston. Secretary : Mr. A. E. Counsell. 3 Windsor Street. Cape Town. WILLOWMORE : Mr. F. J. Dordley. BEAUFORT WEST : Mr. W. Phillipus. Secretary : Mr. G. F. Saaiman. D.R.C. School. P.O. Vogelstruis- Secretary : Mr. C. W. van Zitters. 166 New Street, Beaufort West. leegte. Wilowmore. BELLVILLE : Mr. L. Sausman. WORCESTER : Mr. W. P. van Schoor. Secretary : Mr. C. Thomas. P.O. Box 82. Bredasdorp. Secretary: Mrs. H. F. Smith. 40 Durban Street. Worcester. CALEDON AND DISTRICT : Mr. A. C. Carels. WYNBERG : Mr. E. Maurice. Secretary : Mr. A. J. Fortuin, P.O. Houwhoek. Secretary: Mr. R. F. Thebus, Upper Kent Road, Wynberg. CAPE TOWN : Mr. V. Fowler. Mr. G. G. Meissenheimer, Mr. G. Will all Branches that have not yet done so please submit immedi­ Veldsman. Secretary : Mr. G. Veldsman, 123 Chapel Street. Cape ately the names of their representatives on the Executive Committee Town. and their Secretaries for the year 1948-49. THE EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. 7 - -- -- - —- -- =====-- - -- =— \ Volume XX. No. 11. Official Organ of the Teachers’League of South Africa. September, 1948.\ THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE MASTER RACE. We have had occasion before now to sound Pilate. They have already, for all functional the alarm in connection with the rapid en­ purposes, become important bastions of State trenchment and extension of reactionary, policy and may be relied upon to defend racialistic features in the Universities and Uni­ “apartheid” with the same urbanity, sophistry versity Colleges of South Africa. Recent de­ and genius for rationalisation which they have velopments, namely, the establishment of a displayed in the defence of segregation. We, Non-white branch of the Natal University, the the Non-Europeans, cannot look to the Uni­ statement of policy contained in the University versities, then, to be stirred into supporting of South Africa’s letter to the T.L.S.A., pub­ our struggle for admission or the right to re­ lished elsewhere in this issue, the University main even on the present basis, by appeals students’ marked shift to the extreme right, to their universality, love of learning, academic the Prime Minister’s declaration in the House freedom or intellectual integrity. For all of of Assembly on August 16th on the Govern­ these qualities have long been South African- ment’s determination to complete “apartheid” ised. The separate graduation ceremony, and (segregation) in the Universities—all point to the shameless defence of so disgraceful a the menacing rate at which higher education trampling underfoot of all that is noblest in in this country is conforming to the general the ideals of a University, mark no sudden pattern of racial exclusiveness and caste. lapse on the part of the University of South Far be it from us to suggest that the Uni­ Africa. This institution, a federal foundation versities of South Africa have at any time ful­ which embraces the four constituent colleges filled the functions traditionally associated with of Rhodes, Potchefstroom, Orange Free State, Universities throughout the world. At best Huguenot, as well as Fort Hare, has already they have been little but highly vocational in­ acquired a certain notoriety from the fact that stitutions providing post-matriculation alterna­ all of its constituent colleges are closed to Non- tives to the Technical Colleges. Without any Whites, that it has never permitted a Non- but parochial standards of scholarship, stulti­ White from Fort Hare to sit upon its Council, fied by a process of indoctrination through the that its entry forms for external students de­ medium of annually recurrent lectures, the mand to know the applicant’s race and that, spirit of free and honest intellectual inquiry of recent years, Non-White external students and discussion has been alien to all of them, have been forced to write their examinations including those termed “liberal”.