ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapter, I discussed the key shifts in education policy and major legislation that affected education of different racial and ethnic groups within South Africa. This chapter examines the political orientations of the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch, and how these positions have influenced admissions policies and procedures for students across different racial groups. The universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch represent two of South Africa’s ten historically White universities. These universities emerge from the two ethnic and linguistic categories along which historically White universities were created, UCT being a historically Englishlanguage university while Stellenbosch is a historically Afrikaanslanguage university.
