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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
South African university investigates Nazi posters
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA leading South African university is investigating an incident where Nazi-inspired posters have been put up urging students to resist integration.
Stellenbosch University was an elite school for Afrikaans-speaking whites during the Apartheid era.
“The posters and advertised event promoting racial polarization/superiority combined with highly offensive references to Nazi propaganda and neo-Nazism are totally unacceptable,” South African media quoted student representative Jaco Greeff-Brink as saying.
Stellenbosch #NaziPosters: Three students questionedhttps://t.co/HcIdMfTzn4
via @IOL pic.twitter.com/ZRB2FWnwiJ— Cape Argus (@TheCapeArgus) May 10, 2017
The posters were based on Nazi-era League of German Girls posters that urged Germans to fight for Hitler.
Some Afrikaans-speaking students have resisted a move to switch studies to English in a bid to be more inclusive.
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