September 4, 1998

South African Universities Move to Cast Aside Legacy of Apartheid

By LINDA VERGNANI

Historically white and black institutions face new era of recruiting goals and 'redress'

No blacks held posts in the senior administration of the University of the Orange Free State when Benito Khotseng was appointed deputy rector for academic affairs, in 1993. "It was a hostile environment," he recalls. "Very racist."

At the time, the university was an Afrikaans-language institution, and only 9 per cent of its 9,000

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