White student protests in South Africa: the privileged fight for their rights

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Title:	White student protests in South Africa: the privileged fight for their rights
Author:	Steinhart, Edward I.
Year:	1972
Periodical:	Africa Today
Volume:	19
Issue:	3
Pages:	39-54
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	student movements rebellions
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/4185247
Abstract:	What motivates a wealthy and secure member of the white upper middle classes to defy authority, risk and suffer arrest and physical abuse? There would have been no June Days (demonstrations in June 1972 at the universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in which white students were involved) were it not for the existence of a grossly biased dual educational system which aims at the manipulation and repression of Blacks. Moreover the white students became conscious of their own vulnerability and oppression. The black militants condemned the white protests: 'Whatever destroys black unity is the enemy'. Notes.