1968 anti-government protests by South African students
Mafeje affair
Part of the Protests of 1968
Date
15–23 August 1968
Location
University of Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Caused by
The government pressuring the University of Cape Town to rescind a black Lecturer’s, Archie Mafeje, job offer
Goals
Academic freedom
Methods
Non violent protest and sit-in
Resulted in
Quelling of protests
Parties
UCT's students UCT's staff Students at University of Natal and University of Witwatersrand
UCT's Council South African apartheid government Afrikaans students at Stellenbosch University and Pretoria University Local anti-protesters
Lead figures
Duncan Innes Raphie Kaplinsky Philip van der Merwe Tony Shapiro
John Vorster Jan de Klerk
Number
+600
Casualties
Arrested
see Arrests
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Protests of 1968
Movements
1968 movement in Italy
1968 movement in Pakistan
1968 Polish political crisis
1968 protests in Egypt
1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia
West German student movement
May 68
Mexican Movement of 1968
Prague Spring
1968–1969 Japanese university protests
Incidents
1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity
1968 Red Square demonstration
Båstad riots
Columbia University protests of 1968
Delano grape strike
East L.A. walkouts
Glenville shootout
King assassination riots
March of the One Hundred Thousand
Memphis sanitation strike
Takeover of Vanha
Occupation of the Student Union Building
Rodney riots
Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968
Mafeje affair
The Mafeje affair[1] refers to anti-government protests by South African students in 1968 in response to a decision of the council of the University of Cape Town (UCT) to rescind anthropologist Archie Mafeje's job offer for a senior lecturer position due to pressure from the South African apartheid government. The protests were followed by a nine-day sit-in at the university's administration building.
Protesters faced intimidation from the government, anti-protesters and fellow Afrikaans students from other universities. The police swiftly squashed support for the sit-in. Students at other universities, including the University of Natal and the University of Witwatersrand, voted in support of the UCT action. However, the government successfully intervened against a sympathy march at Witwatersrand.
Mafeje was never hired, and he left the country afterwards and did not return until 2000. After his death, UCT apologised to him and his family, and renamed the main room where the sit-in was held in his honour.
^University of Cape Town (1968-08-07). "The Mafeje affair". Varsity.
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