“Africans Denied Higher Education”

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31540, 30 November 1967, Page 19

“Africans Denied Higher Education”

(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copy right)

CAPE TOWN.

The South African Government’s policy of siting universities and colleges for nonwhites in out-of-the-way areas has been criticised by a former Director of Education in Natal, Dr W. McConkey.

He said recently that many Africans were being denied higher education because they coulf not travel the necessary distances. He contrasted the plight of more than a million Africans in Durban and Johannesburg townships, where there are no advanced institutions of learning, with the position of white students, who have the choice of four. South Africa’s five nonwhite University coleges are all far from non-white population concentrations, while universities for whites all occupy sites in or near the large centres. Dr McConkey said that

part-time classes were the main means to higher qualifications for non-whites, but many students could not afford to travel long distances to tutors. Since they could not afford to study full-time either, much less pay boarding fees, he said, the Government's educational measures for them could be described as fraudulent.

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