Christo Wiese

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TJ Strydom

Christo Wiese

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The year 1966 was one of great turmoil on South African campuses. By that stage the government had already passed a law to segregate the universities. English-speaking higher institutions, which had once been relatively ‘open’, allowing students of all races to attend, could now admit black students only under strict conditions. Race relations at universities were a constant source of news. ‘Ikeys [UCT] elect non-white to SRC’ ran a headline in Die Matie that year.19

In June the United States senator Robert Kennedy, a strong contender for the US presidency, travelled to South Africa at the invitation of Nusas. Stellenbosch’s SRC was opposed to his visit. Wiese warned at a meeting that the SRC should be ‘careful’ on the Kennedy issue not to create the impression that the left-leaning Nusas was the only representative of students’ views in the country. Eventually the men’s residence Simonsberg hosted Kennedy in Stellenbosch. Two years later the senator, brother of President John F Kennedy, was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1968. When the Kennedy family came to the country thirty years after his speech at Simonsberg to commemorate his South African visit, Wiese was their host.

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