STUDENTS GIVE £18

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 7

STUDENTS GIVE £18

Sharpeville Day

Canterbury University students on Monday collected £lB for a South African scholarship fund sponsored by the New Zealand University Students’ Association. This was part of a Sharpeville Day observance to mark the sixth anniversary of the fatal shooting at Sharpeville by South African police of 67 Africans demonstrating against pass laws.

Last year, New Zealand students collected £4OO for this scholarship. An African student was selected to attend a New Zealand university, but he was not permitted to leave South Africa.

Attempts are also made to educate non-white South Africans at universities in other African countries, and to supplement bursaries for nonwhite students in South Africa. Collection desks were set up yesterday in the Students’ Union in Hereford street and near the students’ cafeteria at Ham- Pamphlets entitled “Education Under Apartheid,” and “Apartheid; the Curse of South Africa,” were sold. At lunch time, about 50 students listened to an address by Mr R. H. T. Thompson, reader in sociology. Since. 1959, he said, Africans seeking higher education in South Africa had been restricted to tribal colleges. According to the South African Minister of Education, these aimed to produce “mature leaders who will accept and propagate apartheid.”