Wits The Open Years

Author : Bruce Murray
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776148126
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WITS: The 'Open' Years written by Bruce Murray and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume by Bruce Murray looks at Wits University's role in South Africa's war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals, the rise of research and postgraduate study and the University's defence to preserve its 'open' status.

Author : Bruce K. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781776148141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wits written by Bruce K. Murray and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period between the outbreak of World War II in 1939 and the enactment of university apartheid by the Nationalist Government in 1959, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) developed as an 'open university', admitting students of all races. This, the second volume of the history of Wits by historian Bruce Murray, has as its central theme the process by which Wits became 'open', the compromises this process entailed, and the defence the University mounted to preserve its 'open' status in the face of the challenges posed by the Nationalist Government. The University's institutional autonomy is highlighted by Yunus Ballim in his preface to the centenary edition of WITS: The 'Open' Years. He writes: 'The emerging posture of a university willing to rise in defence of academic freedom was important because this was to become infused into the institutional culture of Wits.' The book looks at the University's role in South Africa's war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals required by a rapidly expanding economy, and the rise of research and postgraduate study. Students feature prominently through their political activities, the flourishing of a student intelligentsia, the heyday of the Remember and Give (Rag) parade, rugby intervarsity, and the stunning success of Wits sportsmen and women. WITS: The 'Open' Years paints a vivid picture of the range of personalities who enlivened the campus -- among them some well-known figures in the new South Africa. The book includes chapters by Alf Stadler, who was Professor of Political Studies at Wits and the author of The Political Economy of Modern South Africa, and Jonty Winch, former Sports Officer at Wits and the author of Wits Sport.

Author : Reuben Musiker
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wits Library written by Reuben Musiker and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Author : Jonty Winch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book Wits Sport written by Jonty Winch and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Author : Shireen A. Ally
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book Servants & Saints? Sociology and Sociologists in Apartheid South Africa written by Shireen A. Ally and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reuben Musiker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Aspects of Wits Library History written by Reuben Musiker and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Luli Callinicos
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book Oliver Tambo written by Luli Callinicos and published by David Philip Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography on the life and times of Oliver Tambo combines the personal and the political, the family and the nation. It explores, under Tambo's steward of the ANC, the making of a culture consensus. It shows how the ANC simultaneously accomodated military resistance, sophisticated diplomacy, underground work and political mobilisation at home. It traces the oirigins and development of Tambo's unique and seemingly effortless mastery of indigenous knowledge, Western education and modernity.

Author : Rochelle L. Woods
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
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