A Day in the Life of the University of Pretoria. 03 May 1995

On this "Day in the life of the University of Pretoria" a founding member of SASO and a former "undesirable" student took up a lecturing position at the University of Pretoria.

An article in the Sowetan reported that Henry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu was militant to the core and fought the white racist system unceasingly. Nengwekhulu was also a former national organiser of the South African Students Organisation and was one of the eight SASO leaders banned in 1973. When he came back from exile in 1995, he decided to lecture at UP because as he stated in the 1995 article “I decided that if I was to work at any university, it would have to be an Afrikaans one. The liberal English institutions are too full off hypocrites.” Nengwekhulu was a senior lecturer in the School for Public Management and Administration.

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