ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the so-called ‘Extension of University Education’ Act, No. 45 of 1959, which prescribed rules for the University Colleges for Africans, Indians and Coloured, set up when such students were excluded from the ordinary universities. By this Act the conditions of service of the academic staff are in the hands of the Minister and the conditions of service which make public criticism of the Government a dismissible offence are to be found in the Regulations. The chapter also presents the Speech of the Minister of Education, Arts and Science on the Second Reading of the Extension of University Education Bill on the 8 April 1959. It describes the principles taken from A Digest of Protest against University Apartheid Legislation, prepared by the National Union of South African Students in 1957. Legislative enforcement of complete academic segregation on racial grounds is an unwanted interference with University autonomy and academic freedom.
