The Big Read: Protest, but don't become the enemy
29 May 2015 - 02:23
When the Stuttgart docked in Cape Town harbour in 1937, the "welcoming committee" awaiting the Auerbach family included students from Stellenbosch University in whose number was a young man named Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. Their intention was not to welcome weary immigrants fleeing persecution in Europe but to spew anti-Semitic hatred at the Jews on board.
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